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Ethnic armies : polyethnic armed forces from the time of the Habsburgs to the age of the superpowers / N.F. Dreisziger, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Military History Symposium (Canada) (13th : 1986 : Royal Military College of Canada)
- Military History Symposium (Canada)
- Series:
- Military History Symposium
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armed Forces--Minorities--History--Congresses.
- Armed Forces.
- Military art and science--Minorities--History--Congresses.
- Military art and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnic Armies is a combination of essays focused on the subject of polyethnic armed forces from the time of the Habsburgs to the age of the superpowers and is a publication of the proceedings of the thirteenth Military History Symposium, held at the Royal Military College of Canada in March 1986. Multi-ethnic armed forces have existed since ancient times. The armies of the ancient empires of the Middle East, of the Roman Emperors, and the Mongol Khans, all tended to be conglomerations of diverse ethnic, religious, or racial groups.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Polyethnicity and Armed Forces: An Introduction; The Ethnic Question in the Multinational Habsburg Army, 1848-1918; Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class in the French Colonial Army: The Black African Tirailleurs, 1857-1958; The American Army and the Indian; Race and the American Military: Past and Present; ""Brotherhood in Arms"": The Ethnic Factor in the Soviet Armed Forces; Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in the Canadian Armed Forces; The Unwelcome Sacrifice: A Black Unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917-19; Index
- Notes:
- "Papers presented at the 13th RMC Military History Symposium held at the Royal Military College in late Mar. 1986"--Verso of t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781554586738
- 1554586739
- 9780889208278
- 0889208271
- OCLC:
- 753479489
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