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Manpower and the armies of the British Empire in the two world wars / edited by Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, Andrew L. Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Manpower--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Manpower--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain--Army--History--World War, 1914-1918.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain--Army--Colonial forces--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York ; London, England : Cornell University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- In this examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilised manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. This book presents a transnational look at how the empire did not always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis, and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute both wars.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Britain and the Military Manpower Problems of the Empire, 1900–1945
- 1. The Government That Could Not Say No and Australia’s Military Effort, 1914–1918
- 2. Irish Identities in the British Army during the First World War
- 3. Conserving British Manpower during and after the First World War
- 4. The Canadian Garrison Artillery Goes to War, 1914–1918
- 5. “Returning Home to Fight”: Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914–1918
- 6. Martial Race Theory and Recruitment in the Indian Army during Two World Wars
- 7. Manpower, Training, and the Battlefield Leadership of British Army Officers in the Era of the Two World Wars
- 8. Legitimacy, Consent, and the Mobilization of the British and Commonwealth Armies during the Second World War
- 9. “Enemy Aliens” and the Formation of Australia’s 8th Employment Company
- 10. The Body and Becoming a Soldier in Britain during the Second World War
- 11. Canada and the Mobilization of Manpower during the Second World War
- 12. South African Manpower and the Second World War
- 13. Manpower Mobilization and Rehabilitation in New Zealand’s Second World War
- 14. Caring for British Commonwealth Soldiers in the Aftermath of the Second World War
- Conclusion: The Many Dimensions of Mobilizing Military Manpower
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501755859
- 1501755854
- 9781501755842
- 1501755846
- OCLC:
- 1257324583
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