Motivation in War

Motivation in War

Author: Ilya Berkovich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1107167736

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Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.


The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560

The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560

Author: Tom Scott

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0198725272

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Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was one such composite polity, surviving until the end of the ancien regime by accommodating and absorbing internal conflicts through a sense of common identity and mutual obligation.