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Fighting for Rights : Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship.

Krebs, Ronald R.

Fighting for Rights : Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages) - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series . - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series .

Fighting for Rights -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Archival Sources and Abbreviations -- 1. A School for the Nation? -- 2. The Power of Military Service -- Part I. The IDF and the Making of Israel: The Jewish State and Its Arab Minorities -- Introduction -- 3. Confronting a Land with People -- 4. Two Roads to Jerusalem -- 5. Military Rites, Citizenship Rights, and Republican Rhetoric -- Conclusion -- Part II. The Perpetual Dilemma: Race and the U.S. Armed Forces -- Introduction -- 6. Great War, Great Hopes, and the Perils of Closing Ranks -- 7. Good War, Cold War, and the Limits of Liberalism -- Conclusion -- 8. Unusual Duties, Usual Rights: Soldiering and Citizenship -- Notes -- Index.

Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights.

9780801459832


Israel - Minorities.


Electronic books.

UB417 -- .K74 2006eb

306.2/70973

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