Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 HISTORY AS POLITICS
- 2 THE CONTINGENCIES OF CONSENT
- 3 GONE FOR A SOLDIER
- 4 THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP
- 5 THE INSTITUTION OF CONSCRIPTION
- 6 GIVING AND REFUSING CONSENT: CITIZEN RESPONSE IN THE CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION CRISES
- 7 A WEAPON AGAINST WAR: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, AND FRANCE
- 8 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF COMPLIANCE
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
4 - THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 HISTORY AS POLITICS
- 2 THE CONTINGENCIES OF CONSENT
- 3 GONE FOR A SOLDIER
- 4 THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP
- 5 THE INSTITUTION OF CONSCRIPTION
- 6 GIVING AND REFUSING CONSENT: CITIZEN RESPONSE IN THE CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION CRISES
- 7 A WEAPON AGAINST WAR: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, AND FRANCE
- 8 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF COMPLIANCE
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
We're coming, ancient Abraham, several hundred strong
We hadn't no 300 dollars and so we come along
We hadn't no rich parents to pony up the tin
So we went unto the provost and there were mustered in.
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, v. 2: 362Throughout the nineteenth century states enhanced the extent and depth of their coercive capacity while also expanding the privileges and numbers of citizens. Rulers developed increasingly efficient and centralized administrative apparatuses to monitor and extract manpower from the countryside, but they had to appease citizens who were also voters and to ensure the cooperation (or at least avoid the resistance) of those whose services they sought, whether voters or not. Nearly all the European, North American, and Antipodean states – democratic or autocratic – devised new equilibrium policies to define the mutual obligations of citizens and government actors. In terms of military policy, the problem for modernizing states was how to develop an effective fighting force more embedded in national society than the absolutist armies of Europe or the local militias of the new countries of North America and the Antipodes.
The substantive focus of this chapter is on the disappearance of various forms of buying one's way out of military service if conscripted: commutation, a fee paid to government; and substitution and replacement, payment to someone else to take one's place.
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- Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism , pp. 80 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997