Army of the French Revolution (eBook)

From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power

Jean Paul Bertaud (Autor)

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2019
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19808-8 (ISBN)

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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 "e;school for the republic"e; 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: "e;the Revolution armed."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Übersetzer: R. R. Palmer
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 15th Cavalry Regiment • adjutant • american legion • American Revolutionary War • Ancien Régime • Archives nationales (France) • Army • Army of Italy (France) • Army of the Alps • Army of the Eastern Pyrenees • Army of the Republic • Army of the Rhine (France) • Army of the West (1846) • artillery • Batavian Republic • Battle of Fleurus (1794) • Battle of Valmy • Bourgeoisie • Brigade general • Brunswick Manifesto • Caesarism • carmagnole • Cavalry • Charles Oudinot • chouan • chouannerie • Ci-devant • Cisalpine Republic • Committee of Public Safety • Conscription • Constitutional bishop • counter-revolutionary • Coup of 18 Brumaire • declaration of war • Defence minister • demi-brigade • Demobilization • Departments of France • Desertion • despotism • draft evasion • Estates General (France) • Flight to Varennes • Foreign War • Frederick the Great • French army • fusilier • Georges Lefebvre • Girondins • Government of France • infantry • Insurgency • Invasion • Jacques Roux • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Line infantry • Maximilien Robespierre • militarization • Military • military art • Military Council • Military Dictatorship • Military district • military history • Military organization • Military Service • militia • musket • Nancy affair • Napoleon • National Army (Ireland) • National Volunteers • New Army • Officer (armed forces) • Paris Basin (geology) • Paris Commune • parlement • Patriotism • Plan of Campaign • Politique • Popular Army (Iraq) • Praetorian Guard • Proscription • quartermaster • Regular Army (United States) • Revolution • roman republic • sans-culottes • Seigneur • Siege of Lyon • Siege of Mainz (1792) • sub-lieutenant • Thermidorian Reaction • tirailleur • Treaty of Alliance (1778) • war • war effort • warfare • War in the Vendée • War of the Second Coalition
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19808-X / 069119808X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19808-8 / 9780691198088