Introduction: citizenship and discipline
First part: the French moment
State-construction and recruitment policy in the ancien regime
From feudal recruitment to touting
The militia (and how to escape from it)
Soldiers and the state
The Enlightenment and military service
Virtue-politics
Rousseau and the military: a philosophy of civic practice
Citizen-soldiers
Popular arming and military service in the French Revolution
The formation of the National Guard
The 1789-90 debate on the military constitution
Armed forces and levies of volunteers in 1791-3
Citizenship or discipline?
Unifying the public force
The revolutionary state and the nation in arms
Quatre-vingt-treize
Death is a reminder of equality: the self-creation of the people
Abstraction and identification
Military experiences
Constructing a popular state
Transition: technologies of the state from France to Prussia
Second part: the Prussian moment
Military, society, and the state in old regime Prussia
State-construction and military duties
The establishment of the canton system
Social implementation
Criticism of the Prussian military system
German idealism and military service
The challenge of revolutionary war to German culture
Interpreting the Revolution: the reform as theory
Kant's heroic humiliation
Fichte's inner frontier
Conscription in the reformed Prussian state
Empowering the nation
The principles of the military reform
Creating a body politic
Principles of stratification
The path to national war
National war and conscription
Organizing an insurrection
Constitution and terror
Popular arming
Conscription
Conclusion.