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Iron and blood : a military history of the German-speaking peoples since 1500
Title
Iron and blood : a military history of the German-speaking peoples since 1500 / Peter H. Wilson.
ISBN
0674292847
9780674292840
Edition
First Harvard University Press edition, 2023.
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xlix, 913 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
First published in the United Kingdom by Allen Lane, an important of Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, 2022.
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
Other formats
Print version: Wilson, Peter H. (Peter Hamish). Iron and blood. First Harvard University Press edition, 2023. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 02, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Balancing War and Peace
Warlords
Forming armies
Going for a soldier
Part II: Accepting War as Permanent
Restraining the war monster
Permanent armies
From extraordinary to ordinary burden
Part III: Professionalizing War
Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns
Professionalizing war
Socialization of the military
Part IV: Nationalizing War
War and nation-building
Nations in arms
Serving the nation
Democratizing War
Demagogues and Democrats
From total war to the end of war
Citizens in uniform
Subjects
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. Harvard University Press Complete 2023.
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