Citizen Militia

Author : James A. Wood
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774817653

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Militia Myths by James A. Wood Pdf

The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity as recent as our histories and memories suggest? Militia Myths brings to light a military culture that consistently employed the citizen soldier as its foremost symbol, but was otherwise in a state of profound transition. At the time of Confederation, the defence of Canada itself represented the country’s only real obligation to the British Empire, but by the early twentieth century Canadians were already fighting an imperial war in South Africa. In 1914, they began raising an army to fight on the Western Front. By the end of the First World War, the ideological transition was complete: for better or for worse, the untrained civilian who had answered the call-to-arms in 1914 replaced the long-serving volunteer militiaman of the past as the archetypical Canadian citizen soldier. Militia Myths traces the evolution of a uniquely Canadian amateur military tradition -- one that has had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First and Second World Wars. Published in association with the Canadian War Museum.

Author : Rear Admiral Joseph H. Miller,Mrs. Cathy Miller R.N. CNRN
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781728300740

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Citizen Militia by Rear Admiral Joseph H. Miller,Mrs. Cathy Miller R.N. CNRN Pdf

History is filled with wars. We dream the victories and defeats, great and small, and note how they have shaped our world. Wars and social movements have made our civilization as we know it. Man’s religion and past wars gives us an understanding of the present. In 1075, a militia loyal to the crown was used against the Norman rebellion. A militia in 1285, and later a Law of Trusts, reorganized the militia. In 1471, with the aid of the militia, towns in Sweden returned to reforms. The University of Uppsala was founded (1477) and printing was introduced. The civic humanist ideal of the militia was spread through Europe by the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. The militiaman in times of crisis left his civilian duties and became a soldier. When the emergency was over, he returned to his civilian status. Militias continued in England, Italy, Germany, and the United States through the Middle Ages. The first US militia was in Boston. Militias soon followed in the Colonies. Militias were valuable in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Mexican War, and both sides of the Civil War. There was further growth into the 1900’s and on into the Present. “Thou art also victory and law When empty terrors overawe.” (Wordsworth)

Author : James Biser Whisker,John R. Coe
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627343541

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The Citizen-Soldier in War and Peace by James Biser Whisker,John R. Coe Pdf

The Citizen Soldier in War and Peace is a is a short historical look at the use of firearms in America and throughout the world this book appeals to anybody who believes in the Second Amendment or who is interested in the historical use of firearms. It begins with the use of guns for hunting and self-protection ad well as personal property and of course national defense early in our country‘s early history . It also analyzes the philosophical standpoint of the idea of the armed citizen and its relationship to freedom. A freeman with a gun, an armed citizenry means a free country The book also does a thorough job of examining other countries and other philosophical aspects of arming the citizenry. This book clearly defines the Militias in other countries. It touches on China and the Soviet Union and their philosophy as well. The book is extremely readable and would be advised reading for anyone from high school to grad school. Those interested in history political science or current events will find this book a must for their personal library.

Author : Rear Admiral Joseph H Miller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1728300762

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Citizen Militia by Rear Admiral Joseph H Miller Pdf

History is filled with wars. We dream the victories and defeats, great and small, and note how they have shaped our world. Wars and social movements have made our civilization as we know it. Man's religion and past wars gives us an understanding of the present. In 1075, a militia loyal to the crown was used against the Norman rebellion. A militia in 1285, and later a Law of Trusts, reorganized the militia. In 1471, with the aid of the militia, towns in Sweden returned to reforms. The University of Uppsala was founded (1477) and printing was introduced. The civic humanist ideal of the militia was spread through Europe by the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. The militiaman in times of crisis left his civilian duties and became a soldier. When the emergency was over, he returned to his civilian status. Militias continued in England, Italy, Germany, and the United States through the Middle Ages. The first US militia was in Boston. Militias soon followed in the Colonies. Militias were valuable in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Mexican War, and both sides of the Civil War. There was further growth into the 1900's and on into the Present. "Thou art also victory and law When empty terrors overawe." (Wordsworth)

Author : David T. Maddox
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613398487

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Citizens Militia by David T. Maddox Pdf

DAVID T. MADDOX, after a 40-year legal career as a civil litigator and decades of prayer for revival, while teaching God’s Word and making disciples, a cancer diagnosis interrupted David and gave him time to finalize a book he had written seven years earlier. However, shortly after the publication of The Curtain series-Book 1, David passed through the curtain himself to his heavenly home. He left his wife Janet, four adult children, eight grandchildren and volumes 2 & 3 of The Curtain series.

Author : C. Edward Skeen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813188782

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Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812 by C. Edward Skeen Pdf

Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Book Award During the War of 1812, state militias were intended to be the primary fighting force. Unfortunately, while militiamen showed willingness to fight, they were untrained, undisciplined, and ill-equipped. These raw volunteers had no muskets, and many did not know how to use the weapons once they had been issued. Though established by the Constitution, state militias found themselves wholly unprepared for war. The federal government was empowered to use these militias to "execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;" but in a system of divided responsibility, it was the states' job to appoint officers and to train the soldiers. Edward Skeen reveals states' responses to federal requests for troops and provides in-depth descriptions of the conditions, morale, and experiences of the militia in camp and in battle. Skeen documents the failures and successes of the militias, concluding that the key lay in strong leadership. He also explores public perception of the force, both before and after the war, and examines how the militias changed in response to their performance in the War of 1812. After that time, the federal government increasingly neglected the militias in favor of a regular professional army.

Author : Charles P. Cozic
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1565105419

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The Militia Movement by Charles P. Cozic Pdf

Collection of essays representing differing points of view about the militia movement of the 1990s.

Author : Stanley C. Weeber,Daniel Gilbert Rodeheaver
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0761827897

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Militias in the New Millennium by Stanley C. Weeber,Daniel Gilbert Rodeheaver Pdf

In Militias in the New Millennium, Stan Weeber and Daniel Rodeheaver examine the state of the U.S. citizen militia movement in the new millennium. Using Smelser's theory of collective behavior, the authors examine the causes, belief systems, and electronic presence of militias, and the efforts of social control agents to contain them. Tested with 1196 internet communications and supplemented with interviews with militia members, Smelser's theory of the origins and direction of radical social movements, such as militias, is mostly confirmed by data analysis.

Author : T. C. Willett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429712937

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A Heritage At Risk by T. C. Willett Pdf

In this comprehensive study of Canada's reserve army, the Militia, the author focuses on the regiment as both a civic and a triilitary institution that has declined in status and visibility since the country's armed services were unified in 1967. .

Author : Noah Shusterman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944623

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Armed Citizens by Noah Shusterman Pdf

Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens, Noah Shusterman explains for a general reader what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. Suggesting that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms, Shusterman begins with the lessons that the founding generation took from the history of Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s reinterpretation of those myths during the Renaissance. He then turns to the rise of France’s professional army during seventeenth-century Europe and the fear that it inspired in England. Shusterman shows how this fear led British writers to begin praising citizens’ militias, at the same time that colonial America had come to rely on those militias as a means of defense and as a system to police enslaved peoples. Thus the start of the Revolution allowed Americans to portray their struggle as a war of citizens against professional soldiers, leading the authors of the Constitution to place their trust in citizen soldiers and a "well-regulated militia," an idea that persists to this day.

Author : Lawrence Delbert Cress
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469639963

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Citizens in Arms by Lawrence Delbert Cress Pdf

This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective army, but they realized that by its very nature the military could destroy freedom as well as preserve it. The security of the new nation was not in dispute but the nature of republicanism itself. Originally published 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Neil A. Hamilton
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018393517

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Militias in America by Neil A. Hamilton Pdf

"The first chapter 'explores the roots that contemporary militia movements have in American history and law, while the second chapter consists of a fourteen-page chronology that follows the militia movement from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the arrest of members of the Viper Militia near Phoenix, Arizona, on July 1, 1996. Another chapter offers biographical sketches of men and women prominent in the contemporary militia movement.'" Voice Youth Advocates.

Author : S. Nelson Drew
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788138232

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The Militia Movement in the United States by S. Nelson Drew Pdf

Inquires, first, to what extent, if at all, do the militias pose a threat to public safety and the Fed. Government? Also, to what extent are Americans joining the militias because they feel, rightly or wrongly, that the Fed. Government poses a threat to their constitutional rights? There are some 224 militias operating in the U.S., active in 39 states and rumored to be present in other States. Witnesses: Robert Bryant, FBI; James Brown, ATF; Fred Mills, Missouri State Highway Patrol; Richard Romley, Maricopa County att., Phoenix, AZ; John Bohlman, Musselshell County att., Roundup, MT; and other counsels from Montana, Michigan and Ohio.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210010702437

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The Militia Movement in the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information Pdf

Author : Jerry M. Cooper
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803214863

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The Rise of the National Guard by Jerry M. Cooper Pdf

From the beginning of our republic the concept of a citizen soldiery, organized through militias, has undergirded American military philosophy. This nation fought the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, and began the Civil War, relying on volunteer militias and only a skeletal professional military force. The Civil War demonstrated the need to adapt state militias to the requirements of modern war, yet the United States retained its original philosophy in what became the National Guard. ø The Rise of the National Guard describes in thorough detail the evolution of the state militia system to a more federally controlled National Guard during the crucial years of development. The subject is important because the "citizen soldier" and "militia-national guard" traditions form one of the two pillars on which American military policy is built; a professional, regular military force is the other. Jerry Cooper's detailed research, unique examination of the experience of individual states, and careful analysis make this work the standard treatment of the subject.