The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe Before the First World War

by Heinrich Hartmann

How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre-World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.

In pre-World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how to define fitness for soldiers and how to translate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262536323
• ISBN13: 9780262536325
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher