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Morale: A Modern British History

Autor Daniel Ussishkin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2017
Morale asks how is it that modern Britons have come to regard morale as a category of conduct, vital for the success of collective effort in war and peace, and a mark of good, modern, and human managerial practice, appropriate for a democratic age? This book tells the intellectual, cultural, and institutional history of morale in modern imperial Britain: its emergence as a new concept during the long nineteenth century, its changing meanings and significations, and the social and political goals those who discussed, observed, or managed morale sought to achieve. Using theoretical approaches and based on empirical research, the book's foremost originality is in the argument itself: that morale was formalized as a new military disciplinary problem during the long nineteenth century, and that during the era of the two world wars it permeated nearly every civilian sphere of life as a new way of managing human conduct. Morale traces how it gradually emerged from a problem that was regarded as residual at best to one that was seen as the epitome of proper managerial practice, its institutional manifestations and promotion by myriad organizations and the social-democratic state, and its emergence as a potent political concept from Britain's social-democratic moment until the ascendancy of the New Right. It is the first history of morale, in Britain or elsewhere.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190469078
ISBN-10: 0190469072
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 239 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Morale: A Modern British History skillfully charts the concept's history as both a disciplinary and political issue. It is meticulously researched and lucidly written, and takes a bold approach to its subject. Ussishkin provides a compelling account of morale's historical development from the late nineteenth century to the modern day, and deploys many interesting historical examples to enrich it. ... As the ?rst detailed study of the history of morale in modern Britain, this book is a major addition to intellectual, military, political and socio-cultural history. It deserves to attract a wide readership.
In Morale: A modern British History Daniel Ussishkin narrates, with success and sophistication, this 'history of a concept' in modern Britain, charting its emergence in military theory, followed by its percolation into social theory, its fundamental importance in social sciences and industrial relations, and finally its reinterpretation in the Thatcher years... An accomplished piece of scholarship... it offers many insights that are invaluable not only to historians of morale, the military, or labour. This is at once an intellectual, military, and social history that will provide an important reference point for any scholar of modern Britain and its cultural, economic, military, social, and political patterns. It also shows how the insights offered by focussing on the definition and interpretation of a concept as it ripples through time can offer new insights on the past.
Ussishkin has set himself the ambitious task of historicizing a concept without a clear or stable meaning. Rather than offering a unitary definition himself, he catalogs a variety of definitions in the past... In tracing this genealogy, Ussishkin makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of work on the history of social science and visions of social order more broadly. He also reminds us that even familiar, ubiquitous, and seemingly commonsensical concepts often arrive at that destination by the most circuitous of routes.
In Morale: A Modern British History, Daniel Ussishkin ... masterfully explains the rise and fall of morale in lucid and engaging prose, deftly illuminating the intellectual, cultural, and institutional growth of an idea central to British conceptions of democratic management and to its unraveling. This powerful and engrossing book is of central importance to the intellectual history of British democracy and the modern state.

Notă biografică

Daniel Ussishkin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.