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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Belgian Army and Society from Independence to the Great War
  name:
    name part: Draper, Mario.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 281 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism. Equally, it obstructed the army from satisfactorily preparing to uphold Belgium's imposed neutrality before 1914. Situated uneasily between the two powerhouses of nineteenth-century Europe, Belgium offers a unique insight into the concepts of citizenship and militarisation in a divided society in the era of fervent nationalism. By examining the composition, experience, and image of the army's officer corps and rank and file, as well as those of the auxiliary forces, this book shows that although military and civilian society often stood aloof from one another, the army, as a national institution, offered a fleeting glimpse into the dichotomy that was pre-war Belgium.
  table of contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Securing the Nation -- Chapter 3 - The Officer Corps -- Chapter 4 - The Rank and File -- Chapter 5 - The Auxiliary Forces -- Chapter 6 - Fortress Policy and Strategy -- Chapter 7 - The Great War -- Chapter 8 - Conclusion -- Index.
  note: by Mario Draper.
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-1492-
  subject:
    topic: Military history
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: History of Modern Europe
  subject:
    topic: History of Military
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  classification: D203.2-475
  classification: 940.903
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319703862
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70386-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 180213
    record change date: 20191023142856.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-70386-2