War in an Age of Revolution, 1775–1815
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- Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, Washington DC
- Stig Förster, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Date Published: October 2013
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- isbn: 9781107692657
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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 noncombattants, occupation, and the impact of war on civilian life in both Europe and North America.
Read more- Analyzes events in both the early-modern and modern periods
- Analyzes events on both sides of the Atlantic
- Part of a broader project on the history of 'total war'
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"An excellent historiographic review on the 'military revolution' of the early modern era, what it was and what its critics assert it was not, opens this collection." -Dieter K. Buse, Canadian Journal of History
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- Date Published: October 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107692657
- length: 436 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: a tale of two tales: grand narratives of war in the age of revolution Roger Chickering
Part I. Perspectives on a Military History of the Revolutionary Era:
1. What constituted the 'military revolution' of the early modern period? Azar Gat
2. Guibert: prophet of total war? Beatrice Heuser
3. Old or new? The French wars: toward a concept of evolutionary change Ute Planert
4. Reluctant reformers, observant disciples: the Prussian military reforms, 1807–14 Dierk Walter
5. The First World War: global dimensions of warfare in the age of revolutions, 1775–1815 Stig Förster
6. 'The most terrible world war': Friedrich Gentz and the lessons of revolutionary war Günther Kronenbitter
Part II. The Growing Dimensions of Battle:
7. The Native American way of war in the age of revolutions, 1754–1814 Timothy J. Shannon
8. The American militias: 'the garnish of a table?' Matthew C. Ward
9. The logistics of revolutionary war in France Alan Forrest
10. Revolt and repression in Napoleonic Italy, 1796–1814 Michael Broers
11. Naval power in the revolutionary era Jeremy Black
12. Partisan warfare in Spain and total war John Lawrence Tone
Part III. Civil Institutions and the Growing Scope of War:
13. Where have all the people gone?: reflections on popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence T. H. Breen
14. Achilles' heel: slavery and war in the American Revolution Jörg Nagler
15. Revolutionary France and the meanings of levée en masse Wolfgang Kruse
16. Religion in a time of war: the case of lower Alsace (1789–94) Donatus Düsterhaus
17. Military and masculinity: gendering the history of the French wars, 1792–1815 Karen Hagemann
18. A tale of two cities: Washington and Baltimore during the War of 1812 Marion Breunig
19. Lost neutrality and economic warfare Napoleonic warfare in northern Europe, 1795–1815 Katharine Aalestad
20. War and everyday life in Britain Mary A. Favret.
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