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Routledge
These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the... Read more
Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; An Army Divided: The Loyalty Crisis of the Habsburg Officer Corps in 1848-1849; The Army Mutiny of 1924 and the Assertion of Civilian Authority in Independent Ireland; Civil War and the Emergence of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China; The Imperial Japanese Army and Politics; Officers and Politicians: The Origins of Army Politics in the United States Before the Civil War; Civil-Military Relations and Democracy: The Case of the Military-Political Elites' Connection in Israel; The Transformation of the Soviet Military and the August Coup; Jefferson, Politics, and the Army: An Examination of the Military Peace Establishment Act of 1802; The Committee on the Conduct of the War: An Experiment in Civilian Control; The Paradox of Professionalism: Eisenhower, Ridgway, and the Challenge to Civilian Control, 1953-1955; The Coup d'Etat in Competitive Democracies: Its Appropriateness, Its Causes, and Its Avoidance; The Military Background of Pilsudski's Coup d'Etat; Liberation by Golpe: Retrospective Thoughts on the Demise of Authoritarian Rule in Portugal; Bangladesh: Anatomy of an Unsuccessful Military Coup; From Counterrevolutionary Warfare to Political Awakening: The Uruguayan and Argentine Armed Forces in the 1970s; Army in a Multi-Ethnic Society: The Case of Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966; Acknowledgments
Biography
Peter Karsten, University of Pittsburgh
