The essay investigates the role of military discipline in civilizing and nationalizing Italian conscripts between 1861 and 1914 by intersecting a strictly normative approach with some suggestions coming from ego-documents. On the one hand, the essay focuses on the discipline regulations in order to evaluate to what extent the military authorities’ disciplining effort theoretically coincided with (or at least was a prerequisite for) recruited people’s true nationalization. On the other hand, soldiers’ memoirs and personal dossiers shed some light on the concrete application of the rules and on the file and rank’s subjective perception of the military discipline sense.
“Giuro di essere fedele al Re ed a’ suoi reali successori”. Disciplina militare, civilizzazione e nazionalizzazione nell’Italia
Rovinello M
2011-01-01
Abstract
The essay investigates the role of military discipline in civilizing and nationalizing Italian conscripts between 1861 and 1914 by intersecting a strictly normative approach with some suggestions coming from ego-documents. On the one hand, the essay focuses on the discipline regulations in order to evaluate to what extent the military authorities’ disciplining effort theoretically coincided with (or at least was a prerequisite for) recruited people’s true nationalization. On the other hand, soldiers’ memoirs and personal dossiers shed some light on the concrete application of the rules and on the file and rank’s subjective perception of the military discipline sense.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
