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The people in arms : military myth and national mobilization since the French Revolution

Title
The people in arms : military myth and national mobilization since the French Revolution / edited by Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron.
Author
Seminar on Force in History (Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.))
Publication
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Additional Authors
  • Moran, Daniel.
  • Waldron, Arthur.
Description
xi, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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Note
  • Papers presented at the Seminar on Force in History, which was held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the legend of the levée en masse / Daniel Moran -- La patrie en danger : the French Revolution and the first levée en masse / Alan Forrest -- The historiography of the levée en masse of 1793 / Owen Connelly -- Arms and concert : the nation in arms and the dilemmas of German liberalism / Daniel Moran -- American views of conscription and the German nation in arms in the Franco-Prussian War / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Defining the enemy : war, law, and the levée en masse from 1870 to 1945 / John Horne -- People's war : the German debate about a levée en masse in October, 1918 / Michael Geyer -- The levée en masse from Russian empire to Soviet Union, 1874-1938 / Mark von Hagen -- From Jaurès to Mao : the levée en masse in China / Arthur Waldron -- In lieu of the levée en masse : mass mobilization in modern Vietnam / Greg Lockhart --The Algerian War, 1954-1962 : the inversion of the levée en masse / Douglas Porch -- Looking backward : the people in arms and the transformation of war / Arthur Waldron.
ISBN
0521814324
LCCN
2002020178
OCLC
  • ocm48951345
  • SCSB-4328742
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries