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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"militiamen"”.
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Maligned “Milish:” Mississippi Militiamen in the Civil War
… Minute Men. This thesis argues that Mississippi militiamen’s pre-war positions and localized conception of military service directly influenced their wartime experiences. Militiamen, often in their thirties and forties, were older than the average Confederate soldier, established community …
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Internet and U.S. citizen militias
… Internet sites it is possible to examine whether militiamen have experienced strain, and whether the strain, together with other factors, influence an individual's decision to join the militia. This dissertation was the first sociological study of American militias on the Internet and the first in …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… a large-scale use of federal troops and state militiamen, all sought to regulate the social landscape of the borderlands. In the highly partisan world of the antebellum south, state politics and a democratic ethos collided with the violent actions of local, state, and federal actors in the …
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The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions
… forces that fought the Highlanders were a mix of militiamen and seasoned veterans of the continental wars. In essence the military engagements between the Jacobites and British were a contest between an undisciplined archaic force and a disciplined thoroughly modern force. The combination of …
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The Experience of Soldiering: Civil-Military Relations and Popular Protest in England, 1790-1805.
… and that, once recruited, soldiers and militiamen retained their working-class attitudes, and viewed their service primarily as a contractual form of labour. The extent to which armed service was viewed as conditional and negotiable will be emphasized through an examination of the …