From Byron to bin Laden : a history of foreign war volunteers / (Record no. 8699)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2017017573 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674979567 |
| Qualifying information | (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MH/DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MH |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | UB321..A75 |
| Item number | 2017 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 355.2/2362 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Arielli, Nir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1975- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | From Byron to bin Laden : a history of foreign war volunteers / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Nir Arielli. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 295 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm |
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| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | unmediated |
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| Carrier type term | volume |
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| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-283) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Only a nation in arms? "foreigners" in military service before 1815 -- Attractive conflicts: the changing ideological landscape -- A search for meaning: deciphering motivations -- Thoughts of home: a typology of volunteer-state relations -- Controlling the flow: governmental responses, legislation, and support networks -- Winning wars? assessing military significance -- The dark side: troublemakers, soldiers of misfortune, and terrorists -- Links in a chain: memory and myth. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | What makes people fight and risk their lives for a country other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as the poet Lord Byron, the writer George Orwell, the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, and the young Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden all turn to foreign military service? From Byron to bin Laden makes a historian's examines the phenomenon of war volunteers who have travelled abroad to fight on the basis of a personal decision, without being sent by their governments and not strictly for the sake of material gain. Although fighting for very different causes, these volunteers shared a number of commonalities; they tended to superimpose their beliefs and perceptions on the wars they joined, while a personal search for meaning invariably underlined their actions. Through a comprehensive study of the history of foreign volunteering from the wars of the French Revolution to the present, the book opens up a broad range of questions that relate to individual motivations, ideology, gender, state-citizen relations, international law, military significance, radicalization and the memory of war.-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Foreign enlistment |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Military service, Voluntary |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Soldiers |
| General subdivision | Psychology. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | Reference | 14/02/2022 | UB321..A75 | 9141/590/22 | 14/02/2022 | 14/02/2022 | Books |