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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Conscription"”.
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Manpower and military conscription in Acton, 1916-1918
… was constantly evolving to deal with the very conscription they were supposed to manage.
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The army league, conscription and the 1956 defence review
… League went on to argue for the introduction of conscription prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1948 Leo Amery decided to resurrect the Army League and use it publicise defence issues at the beginning of the Cold War. Leo and Julian Amery attempted to shape defence policy in the …
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Peace Makers or Draft Dodgers: Haredi Resistance to Israeli Military Conscription
… are exempted from the IDF's policy of universal conscription. This thesis proposes three hypotheses to determine why Israel's <em>haredim</em> do not serve in the IDF. First, the<em> haredim</em> do not serve in the IDF because they do not want to; second, the <em>haredim</em> do not serve …
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The Grass-Roots Challenges with Administration: Conscription Evasion, Contraband, and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe
… Napoleonic authority on an international level. Conscription fraud, contraband, and resistance to government officials reveal that the local reaction in the French jurisdiction was based on contempt for both economic and military policies. The research exhibits that the grass-roots nature of the …
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Conscription, the National Identity Enigma, and the Politics of Ethno-Cultural Cleavage in Canada During World War Ii
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An illusion of power; military conscription as a dilemma of liberal democracy in Great Britain, the United States, and France.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1973
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The military draft and the all-volunteer force: a case study of a shift in public policy
… manpower policy of the United States from conscription to a policy of complete volunteerism--the all-volunteer force. The case study approach is largely historical and is concentrated on the turbulent period between 1965, when the United States' combat role in South Vietnam escalated …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… on the lives of two young men balloted for conscription in 1968. Although opposed to the Vietnam War and conscription they are not attracted to the idea of going into hiding as draft resisters or the prospect of two years in jail. They want another solution. Their lives are shaped by a …
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Conscripting the 'Jura-Paris Road': Military Themes in the Work of Marcel Duchamp
… to one another:<br/><br/>1. his military conscription in 1905 - 1906.<br/>2. the automobile journey between the Jura and Paris in October 1912 and its formulation into the note, the 'Jura-Paris road.'<br/><br/>These two events appear routinely in the literature on Marcel Duchamp; …
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Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace
… actors. Compared to all-volunteer forces (AVFs), conscription is an impediment to conflict termination because the cost some individuals incur by being subject to conscription decreases the opportunity cost of rebellion, increases grievances and insulates influential sections of the population …
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Individualized masculine citizenship: study abroad men and military service in South Korea
… make sense of and give meaning to military conscription in South Korea, I argue that study abroad men secure individualized masculine citizenship through a military service that is highly classed and largely pursued for individual benefits; as such their service differs from the dominant …
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The work of the Military Service Tribunals in Northamptonshire, 1916-1918
… men deemed thereby to have enlisted. Given that conscription itself was an entirely novel mechanism to early twentieth century Britons, there existed no criteria or known models against which the function of these bodies might have been measured or standardized. Gifted a marked degree of …
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Ecossistemas da Escravidão: histórias de trabalhadores potiguares (São José de Mipibu, década de 1970)
… case relating to a revolt against the 1874 conscription law, observing how these rural workers organized themselves around common elements and what experiences united them. The research sheds light on the formation of a black peasant class in the province's sugar region and provides elements …
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Arts space under (narrative) construction.
… this communications case study demonstrates the conscription of artists as characters in the dominant narrative of urban gentrification and the influences limiting their active participation in complicating that narrative.
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An American Ambassador in Berlin: Observing Hitler's Gambles in Foreign Policy, 1933-1937
… of Nations in October 1933, the announcement of conscription in March 1935, and the remilitarization of the Rhineland in March 1936. By focusing on these three critical moments, this thesis traces the evolution of Dodd's perception of the threat Nazi Germany posed to world peace. The four years …
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The All-Volunteer Force and Presidential Use of Military Force
… trauma of the Vietnam War, the AVF did away with conscription and instead relied on volunteers to serve and fight in U.S. military operations. The AVF's ranks were mostly filled with those willing to deploy and fight for their country, without the U.S. having to rely on conscription. When U.S. …
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HURDLES TO JAPAN’S QUEST FOR SELF-PROCURED SECURITY
… constitution to legitimize the JSDF, introducing conscription, or similarly radical reforms.
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‘Structures, Experiences and Discourses’: The Middlesex Military Service Tribunals and their Appellants, 1916-1918.
… from military service by men eligible for conscription. Conscription was not unprecedented in British history, but there was no tradition of military impressment en masse. The creation of tribunals was therefore a liberal semi-democratic society’s attempt at preserving yet prescribing the …
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