Men under Fire. Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Men under Fire. Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This book represents a substantial reworking and extension of the Czech original that was published by Nakladatelství Lidové noviny in Prague in 2016 (following in the footsteps of Rudolf Kučera&apos;s acclaimed &quot;Rationed Life&quot;, publlished with Berghahn in 2016). While presenting the same ideas and arguments, important historiographical context and secondary research has been added since, with the sole purpose of presenting to a wider global audience a more rounded study of a topic that in the past has suffered all too often from oversimplification. Traditionally,.in historical writing on Austria-Hungary, Czech-speaking soldiers are studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this often-overlooked cohort during the First World War, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings and combining methods from history, gender studies and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged soldiers’ sense of masculinity and influenced their beliefs and loyalties. The text follows the men who entered the Austro-Hungarian service during wartime through the narrative arc of mobilisation, enlistment, and sending off to the frontline to cover their initial motivation to take part in the war, only to fully analyze the effects war service, exhaustion, supply problems, fear of death and anxiety about their loved ones had on their morale and their sense of masculinity. Listing the crushing changes in their views of women, femininity, one&apos;s own sexuality, as well as the issue of comradeship as an important emotional outlet necessary for survival, it then goes on to the moment whem these men entered combat, looking into the way it reshaped their understanding of themselves as men, expressed mostly through gendered bodily anxieties. Overall, the book argues that while that desire to protect or attain better position in gender/social hierarchy may have led to surprisingly easygoing mobilization in Bohemia and Moravia, subsequent pressures, often understood in both practical as well as gendered terms by the men themselves (with particular emphasis on loss of power and control), led to their diminished morale and loyalty, despite some positiove alleviating effects of gendered ideas such as comradeship, and in particular because of some Austro-Hungarian policies seen as particularly emasculating and disrespectful. In turn, it was these policies which were easily understood in national terms (as they were often aimed at Czechs as a group), leading Czech-speaking troops to increasingly see their ordeal in national terms, which made them particularly passive and unethusiastic, if not necessarily disloyal soldiers in 1917 and especially 1918.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Men under Fire. Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918

Popis výsledku anglicky

This book represents a substantial reworking and extension of the Czech original that was published by Nakladatelství Lidové noviny in Prague in 2016 (following in the footsteps of Rudolf Kučera&apos;s acclaimed &quot;Rationed Life&quot;, publlished with Berghahn in 2016). While presenting the same ideas and arguments, important historiographical context and secondary research has been added since, with the sole purpose of presenting to a wider global audience a more rounded study of a topic that in the past has suffered all too often from oversimplification. Traditionally,.in historical writing on Austria-Hungary, Czech-speaking soldiers are studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this often-overlooked cohort during the First World War, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings and combining methods from history, gender studies and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged soldiers’ sense of masculinity and influenced their beliefs and loyalties. The text follows the men who entered the Austro-Hungarian service during wartime through the narrative arc of mobilisation, enlistment, and sending off to the frontline to cover their initial motivation to take part in the war, only to fully analyze the effects war service, exhaustion, supply problems, fear of death and anxiety about their loved ones had on their morale and their sense of masculinity. Listing the crushing changes in their views of women, femininity, one&apos;s own sexuality, as well as the issue of comradeship as an important emotional outlet necessary for survival, it then goes on to the moment whem these men entered combat, looking into the way it reshaped their understanding of themselves as men, expressed mostly through gendered bodily anxieties. Overall, the book argues that while that desire to protect or attain better position in gender/social hierarchy may have led to surprisingly easygoing mobilization in Bohemia and Moravia, subsequent pressures, often understood in both practical as well as gendered terms by the men themselves (with particular emphasis on loss of power and control), led to their diminished morale and loyalty, despite some positiove alleviating effects of gendered ideas such as comradeship, and in particular because of some Austro-Hungarian policies seen as particularly emasculating and disrespectful. In turn, it was these policies which were easily understood in national terms (as they were often aimed at Czechs as a group), leading Czech-speaking troops to increasingly see their ordeal in national terms, which made them particularly passive and unethusiastic, if not necessarily disloyal soldiers in 1917 and especially 1918.

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-78920-541-1

Počet stran knihy

300

Název nakladatele

Berghahn books

Místo vydání

Oxford

Kód UT WoS knihy

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