Revolutionary Armies In The Modern Era
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Author |
: S.P. Mackenzie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135091194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135091196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era by : S.P. Mackenzie
This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differences and similarities between such armies. Beginning with an exploration of the New Model Army of the 1640s, a force whose name itself seems to denote its revolutionary credentials, the author presents ten case studies from around the globe, including the American War of Independence, The French Revolution, The Zulu-Boer War, the Waffen SS and the Viet-Cong. Through a detailed analysis of source material, he examines the images connected with these armies, both historical and recent, and assesses these images in their socio-political and nationalist contexts.
Author |
: Jean Paul Bertaud |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2019-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691198088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069119808X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Army of the French Revolution by : Jean Paul Bertaud
Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of the firest great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, engaged in what has been called the first total war: that between revolutionary France and the other European powers. The book is a successful attempt to integrate military history with social and political history and thereby to depict the army as a "school for the republic" that by subtle changes after 1795 made way for the Napoleonic regime. The distinguished historian R.R. Palmer presents the first translation of this work into English in a volume that will quickly become indispensable for French historians, historical sociologists, and political scientists interested in armies and revolutions. The theme of the book is suggested by its French title: "the Revolution armed." That is, the book is primarily about the Revolution, and specifically the Revolution in its relation to armed force. This revolution, and this army, activated the idea of the citizen-soldier exemplified by the ancient classical republics, and favored by Jean-jacques Rousseau and other eighteenth-century thinkers, but never before realized on so large and portentous a scale as in France in the 1790s. Jean-Paul Bertaud is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris I (the Sorbonne). He has published widely in France on aspects of the French Revolution. R.R. Palmer is Professor Emeritus at Yale University and author of numerous books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959 and 1964), Twelve Who Ruled (1941), and The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution (1985), all published by Princeton University Press. He has translated many works from the French, most recently The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Herve and Alexis de TOcqueville on the Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton, 1987). Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author |
: Brian Downing |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691024758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691024752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Military Revolution and Political Change by : Brian Downing
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.
Author |
: Christopher J. Tozzi |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2016-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813938349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813938341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nationalizing France's Army by : Christopher J. Tozzi
Before the French Revolution, tens of thousands of foreigners served in France’s army. They included troops from not only all parts of Europe but also places as far away as Madagascar, West Africa, and New York City. Beginning in 1789, the French revolutionaries, driven by a new political ideology that placed "the nation" at the center of sovereignty, began aggressively purging the army of men they did not consider French, even if those troops supported the new regime. Such efforts proved much more difficult than the revolutionaries anticipated, however, owing to both their need for soldiers as France waged war against much of the rest of Europe and the difficulty of defining nationality cleanly at the dawn of the modern era. Napoleon later faced the same conundrums as he vacillated between policies favoring and rejecting foreigners from his army. It was not until the Bourbon Restoration, when the modern French Foreign Legion appeared, that the French state established an enduring policy on the place of foreigners within its armed forces. By telling the story of France’s noncitizen soldiers—who included men born abroad as well as Jews and blacks whose citizenship rights were subject to contestation—Christopher Tozzi sheds new light on the roots of revolutionary France’s inability to integrate its national community despite the inclusionary promise of French republicanism. Drawing on a range of original, unpublished archival sources, Tozzi also highlights the linguistic, religious, cultural, and racial differences that France’s experiments with noncitizen soldiers introduced to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French society. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Author |
: Amos Perlmutter |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300023537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300023534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Military and Politics in Modern Times by : Amos Perlmutter
Author |
: Alan I. Forrest |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822309351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822309352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soldiers of the French Revolution by : Alan I. Forrest
In this work Alan Forrest brings together some of the recent research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Forrest places the armies of the Revolution in a broader social and political context by presenting the effects of war and militarization on French society and government in the Revolutionary period. Revolutionary idealists thought of the French soldier as a willing volunteer sacrificing himself for the principles of the Revolution; Forrest examines the convergence of these ideals with the ordinary, and often dreadful, experience of protracted warfare that the soldier endured.
Author |
: T. C. W. Blanning |
Publisher |
: Hodder Education |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0340569115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780340569115 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 by : T. C. W. Blanning
"The military and political progress of the [French] revolutionary armies is narrated and analysed in this ... study, with special attention paid to the legacy of the old regime, the remarkable resilience displayed by the old regime powers, the reasons for the revolutionaries' success on land -- and the reasons for their failure at sea. The revolutionary wars brought France hegemony in Europe but at a terrible cost. Inside the country, the war brought the end of pluralism, the destruction of the monarchy, civil war and the terror, paving the way for military dictatorship and burdening the country with an enduring legacy of political instability. This interaction between events at the front and at home is discussed in full. Special attention is also paid to the devastation inflicted by the revolutionary armies as they rampaged across the continent, together with the nationalist resistance movements they provoked"--Page 4 of cover.
Author |
: Ira D. Gruber |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556041533993 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution by : Ira D. Gruber
Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Author |
: Owen Connelly |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2012-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134552894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134552890 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 by : Owen Connelly
Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the wars of both the French Revolution and Napoleon. Owen Connelly expertly analyzes them both to provide a broader context for warfare. Examining the causes of the wars, and how the practices of warfare during this period were to influence mode of combat throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Connelly also establishes trends discernable in the First and Second World Wars and examines key issues including: * the impact of the population explosion on armies and war * the legacy of the ancient regime impact on revolutionary armies * the impact of the Revolution on leadership, strategy, organization and weaponry * Was Napoleon’s leadership style unique, or could another have played his role? * contributions from the governments of the early Revolution, the Terror, the Directory and the Napoleonic regime * What did twenty-three successive years of war accomplish? * Was this era a turning point in the history of warfare?
Author |
: MacGregor Knox |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2001-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 052180079X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521800792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by : MacGregor Knox
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.