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'At Duty's Call' - A Study in Obsolete Patriotism (Paperback)
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'At Duty's Call' - A Study in Obsolete Patriotism (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man
had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen's shilling. Yet in the
first sixteen months of the Great War two and a half million men
from the UK and many more from the empire, flocked to the colours -
without any form of legal compulsion. There had never been a
volunteer army like it. What was in the air of England in the
generation or so before 1914 to bring about such collective
exultation? How did it come about that, in a society which - in
oft-proclaimed contrast to Germany - rejected conscription and
prided itself on having no taint of militarism, men could be
induced to volunteer in such numbers? The nation's general state of
mind, system of values and set of attitudes derived largely from
the upper middle class, which had emerged and become dominant
during the nineteenth century. The book examines the phenomenon of
1914 and the views held by people of that class, since it was under
their leadership that the country went to war. -- .
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