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Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars / ed. by Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, Andrew L. Brown.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (318 p.) : 15 b&w halftones, 2 graphsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501755835
  • 9781501755866
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.4/1241 23
LOC classification:
  • UA668 .M36 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: In the first and only 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 mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them into 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. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies upon medical services for mending wounded soldiers, and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized.Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars is 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.
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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

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In the first and only 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 mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them into 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. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies upon medical services for mending wounded soldiers, and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized.Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars is 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.

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In English.

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