Series Introduction

Volume Introduction

The Institution of Conscription

Margaret Levi

Hessian Peasant Women, Their Families, and the Draft: A Social-Historical Interpretation of Four Tales from the Grimm Collection

Peter Taylor

Hermann Rebel

Purchase and Promotion in the British Army in the Eighteenth Century

Eric Robson

The Afro-Argentine Officers of Buenos Aires Province, 1800--1860

George Reid Andrews

``Martial Races'': Ethnicity and Security in Colonial India, 1858--1939

David Omissi

Chums in Arms: Comradeship Among Canada's South African War Soldiers

Carman Miller

The Creation of the Imperial Military Reserve Association in Japan

Richard J. Smethurst

The Untouchable Soldier: Caste, Politics, and the Indian Army

Stephen P. Cohen

Ethnic Conflict in the Military of Developing Nations: A Comparative Analysis of India and Nigeria

Pradeep P. Barua

The Blue Water Soviet Naval Officer

Sumner Shapiro

Consent and the American Soldier: Theory versus Reality

Peter Karsten

General Smallwood's Recruits: The Peacetime Career of the Revolutionary War Private

Edward C. Papenfuse

Gregory A. Stiverson

Commutation: Democratic or Undemocratic?

Hugh G. Earnhart

Guerrilla War in Western Missouri, 1862--1865: Historical Extensions of the Relative Deprivation Hypothesis

Don R. Bowen

Draft Evasion in the North during the Civil War, 1863--1865

Peter Levine

Making the Military American: Advertising, Reform, and the Demise of an Antistanding Military Tradition, 1945--1955

Mark R. Grandstaff

Was Vietnam a Class War?

Allan Mazur

The Army's ``Be All You Can Be'' Campaign

Leonard Shyles

John E. Hocking

Acknowledgments