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Author Geva, Dorit, 1974-

Title Conscription, family, and the modern state : a comparative study of France and the United States / Dorit Geva, Central European University
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Contents Cover -- Conscription, Family, and the Modern State -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Conscription, Familial Authority, and State Modernity in France and the United States -- Max Weber, Familial Authority, and Modern Western Political Development -- Feminist State Theory -- Going Back, Going Forward -- Bridging Feminists, Weberians, and Foucauldians -- The Two Exceptions? Tracing Similarities and Differences -- PART I CONSCRIPTION, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN MODERN FRANCE -- 1 Nationalized Coercion, Familial Authority, and the Père de Famille in Nineteenth-Century France -- Patriarchal Power and Familial Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Era -- Napoleonic Reforms and Intensification of Paternal Power -- Napoleonic Reform, Conscription, and the Contradictions between State and Paternal Authority -- Nineteenth Century Continuities -- 2 Conscription, Pronatalism, and Decline of Familial Sovereignty in the Early Third Republic -- The French Third Republic: A Laboratory for French Republicanism -- Gender in the Early Third Republic: Republicanism, Depopulation, and the Père de Famille -- The Père de Famille -- The Third Republic and the Nation in Arms -- The 1905 Recruitment Law: Military Service Is "Equal for All" -- The Depopulation Crisis and the Challenge to Familial Authority -- Wartime Mobilization and Demobilization -- 3 The Famille Nombreuse versus the Security State in Interwar France -- Depopulation, Gender Backlash, and Familial Authority -- The Familles Nombreuses in Postwar Army Reform -- Depopulation Is War: The 1928 Recruitment Bill -- The Années Creuses and the Road to Total War -- Familial Authority and the Specter of Total War -- PART II THE DRAFT, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN THE UNITED STATES -- 4 Breadwinning, Selective Service, and the World War I Draft
World War I Precedents -- Coverture, Household Authority, and Prewar Transformations -- The Preparedness Movement and the Eruption of World War I -- Voluntarism's Extravagance and the Birth of Selective Service -- The First Draft: Approaching Each Case with Sympathy and Commonsense -- The New Classification Scheme -- Class I -- Class II -- Class III -- Class IV -- Class V -- Confronting a "Marriage Epidemic" -- Race, Gender, and Selective Preservation of the Patriarchal Household -- Selectively Invasive: The World War I Draft Compared to Great Britain, Canada, and New Zealand -- 5 The Father Draft Crisis and World War II -- The Early World War II Draft: One Board Literalistic, One Board Liberalistic, One Board Middle Ground -- The War Manpower Commission and the Decline of Paternal Sovereignty -- Work or Fight (or Father) -- More Paternalism, Less Executive Authority -- Race, Gender, and the Family/State Nexus Transformed -- Selective Service and the Quasi-Autonomous Family -- Conclusion Familial Authority and State Modernity Past and Present -- Of Feminists and Bellicists -- The Promise of a Feminist Historical Sociology -- From the Past to the Present -- The Demise of the Mass Army and the Family/State Nexus Today -- Bibliography -- 1. French Primary Sources -- Monographs -- Newspapers -- French Parliamentary Materials -- 2. American Primary Sources -- Archival Material from the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- Newspapers and Journals -- Publications of the Selective Service System -- Congressional and Executive Documents -- 3. Books, Articles, Theses, and Essays -- Index
Summary "This book compares how the American draft system and the French conscription system came to be"-- Provided by publisher
"The development of modern military conscription systems is usually seen as a response to countries' security needs, and as reflection of national political ideologies like civic republicanism or democratic egalitarianism. This study of conscription politics in France and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century challenges such common sense interpretations. Instead, it shows how despite institutional and ideological differences, both countries implemented conscription systems shaped by political and military leaders' concerns about how taking ordinary family men for military service would affect men's presumed positions as heads of families, especially as breadwinners and figures of paternal authority. The first of its kind, this carefully researched book combines an ambitious range of scholarly traditions and offers an original comparison of how protection of men's household authority affected one of the paradigmatic institutions of modern states"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Draft -- France -- History -- 20th century
Draft -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Draft -- Social aspects -- France
Draft -- Social aspects -- United States
Heads of household -- France
Heads of household -- United States
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Draft
Draft -- Social aspects
France
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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