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War in an age of revolution, 1775-1815
Title
War in an age of revolution, 1775-1815 / edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster.
ISBN
9780521899963 (hbk.)
0521899966 (hbk.)
Published
Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to do with the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic--the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare. Among the topics covered in the volume are the global dimensions of warfare, logistics, universal military service and the mobilization of noncombatants, occupation, and the impact of war on civilian life in both Europe and North America"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2011
Series
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: A tale of two tales : grand narratives of war in the age of revolution / Roger Chickering
pt. 1. Perspectives on a military history of the revolutionary era
What constituted the military revolution of the early modern period? / Azar Gat
Guibert : prophet of total war? / Beatrice Heuser
Innovation or evolution? : the French wars in military history / Ute Planert
Reluctant reformers, observant disciples : the Prussian military reforms, 1807-1814 / Dierk Walter
The first world war : global dimensions of warfare in the age of revolutions, 1775-1815 / Stig Förster
"The most terrible world war" : Friedrich Gentz and the lessons of revolutionary war / Günther Kronenbitter
pt. 2. The growing dimensions of battle
The Native American way of war in the age of revolutions, 1754-1814 / Timothy J. Shannon
The American militias : "the garnish of a table?" / Matthew C. Ward
The logistics of revolutionary war in France / Alan Forrest
Revolt and repression in Napoleonic Italy, 1796-1814 / Michael Broers
Naval power in the revolutionary era / Jeremy Black
Partisan warfare in Spain and total war / John Lawrence Tone
pt. 3. Civil Institutions and the growing scope of war
Where have all the people gone? : reflections on popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence / T.H. Breen
Achilles' heel : slavery and war in the American Revolution / Jörg Nagler
Revolutionary France and the meanings of levée en masse / Wolfgang Kruse
Religion in a time of war : the case of lower Alsace, 1789-1794 / Donatus Düsterhaus
The military and masculinity : gendering the history of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1792-1815 / Karen Hagemann
A tale of two cities : Washington and Baltimore during the War of 1812 / Marion Breunig
Lost neutrality and economic warfare : Napoleonic warfare in northern Europe, 1795-1815 / Katharine Aalestad
War and everyday life in Britain / Mary A. Favret.
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