Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830 /: military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830. (2007)
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- Book
- Title:
- Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830 /: military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830. (2007)
- Main Title:
- Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830
- Uniform Title:
- Soldats et citoyens.
- Further Information:
- Note: Thomas Hippler.
- Authors:
- Hippler, Thomas, 1972-
- Contents:
- 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 ofIntroduction: 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. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Subjects:
- 355.2/2363094309034
HISTORY / Revolutionary
Draft -- France
Draft -- Germany -- Prussia
France -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815
France -- History, Military -- 19th century
Prussia (Germany) -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 18th century
Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 19th century
France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815
France -- Politics and government -- 1814-1830
Prussia (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900 - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781134130023
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