In August 2006, Private Henry Farr was granted posthumous pardon ninety years after he had been c... more In August 2006, Private Henry Farr was granted posthumous pardon ninety years after he had been convicted for cowardice in a military court and executed in October 1916. This was the final victory in a twelve-years battle between Private Farr’s descendents and the British Ministry of Defence. Within a few months of the court ruling in favour of overturning Henry Farr’s original conviction, the Ministry of Defence issued a collective pardon to 306 men who had been executed for cowardice, deser..
Bureaucrats, Generals, and the Domestic Use o f Military Troops: Patterns of Civil-Military Co-op... more Bureaucrats, Generals, and the Domestic Use o f Military Troops: Patterns of Civil-Military Co-operation concerning Maintenance of Public Order in French and Prussian Industrial Areas, 1889-1914. Ph.D. thesis submitted by Anja Johansen, European University Institute, Florence, November 1998. The purpose of the thesis is to understand the role o f the army in the management of civil conflicts within the ‘democratic’ republican system in France and the ‘semiabsolutist* and ‘militaristic’ Prussian system. In both countries, existing interpretations of the domestic role of the army focus on legal-constitutional perspectives, governmental and parliamentary policy making, and social conflicts, and are often normative. However, the lack of a cross-national comparative perspective has led to a series of conclusions that are called into question when the French and Prussian cases are compared. The thesis seeks to answer the question why the authorities in French and Prussian industrial areas...
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In August 2006, Private Henry Farr was granted posthumous pardon ninety years after he had been c... more In August 2006, Private Henry Farr was granted posthumous pardon ninety years after he had been convicted for cowardice in a military court and executed in October 1916. This was the final victory in a twelve-years battle between Private Farr’s descendents and the British Ministry of Defence. Within a few months of the court ruling in favour of overturning Henry Farr’s original conviction, the Ministry of Defence issued a collective pardon to 306 men who had been executed for cowardice, deser..
Bureaucrats, Generals, and the Domestic Use o f Military Troops: Patterns of Civil-Military Co-op... more Bureaucrats, Generals, and the Domestic Use o f Military Troops: Patterns of Civil-Military Co-operation concerning Maintenance of Public Order in French and Prussian Industrial Areas, 1889-1914. Ph.D. thesis submitted by Anja Johansen, European University Institute, Florence, November 1998. The purpose of the thesis is to understand the role o f the army in the management of civil conflicts within the ‘democratic’ republican system in France and the ‘semiabsolutist* and ‘militaristic’ Prussian system. In both countries, existing interpretations of the domestic role of the army focus on legal-constitutional perspectives, governmental and parliamentary policy making, and social conflicts, and are often normative. However, the lack of a cross-national comparative perspective has led to a series of conclusions that are called into question when the French and Prussian cases are compared. The thesis seeks to answer the question why the authorities in French and Prussian industrial areas...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-01-04T17:03:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date:... more Made available in DSpace on 2020-01-04T17:03:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013
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