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
3 - GONE FOR A SOLDIER
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
“It's now, my brave fellows, if you want to enlist,
It's five golden guineas I'll clap in your fist;
Besides, there's five shillings to kick up a dust
As you go to the fair in the morning.
“It's then you will also go decent and clean
While all other fellows go dirty and mean;
While all other fellows go dirty and mean,
And sup their bugoo in the morning.”
“Och, you need not be talking about your fine pay,
For all you have got is one shilling a day;
And as for your debt, the drums pay your way
As you march through the town in the morning.
“And you need not be talking about your fine clothes,
For you've just got the loan of them, as I do suppose;
And you dare not sell them in spite of your nose,
Or you would get flogged in the morning.”
“The Recruiting Sergeant,” traditional Irish, English, and Scottish ballad
Throughout the eighteenth century (and into the nineteenth), a single shilling pressed into the hand of a drunken man in a public house by a recruiting sergeant constituted the enlistment of a soldier in the British army. In France, the dreaded milice royale relied on a lottery to choose which peasants would be forced into the King's service. The army was not a popular institution, at least not for those who had to serve in its rank and file. Some joined because they liked the life, but most did so because they were coerced or needed the work or were fleeing from something worse.
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- Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism , pp. 42 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997