Research Catalog

Title

Soldiers and states : civil-military relations in modern Europe / edited with an introduction by David B. Ralston.

Publication

Boston, Heath [1966]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ralston, David B.

Description

x, 218 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in history and politics

Uniform Title

Studies in history and politics.

Subject

• Armies
• armies
• Civil-military relations > Europe > History
• Armées
• Europe > History, Military
• Europe
• Europe > Histoire militaire

Genre/Form

Military history.

Bibliography (note)

• "Suggestions for reading": p. 217-218.

Contents

Machiavelli on the problem of the army and the state -- The military revolution / Michael Roberts -- Cardinal Richelieu on the need for a permanent army -- Michel le Tellier and the founding of the French army / Louis André -- Louis XIV on the military duties of the French monarch -- The great elector and the founding of the Prussian army / Ferdinand Schevill -- The political testament of Frederick William I -- The army under Frederick William I / Leopold von Ranke -- The growth of the Prussian bureaucracy / Robert Ergang -- Frederick the Great on the military bases of Prussian statecraft -- The new model army -- Cromwell's army / C.H. Firth -- James II and the army -- The Bill of Rights and the Mutiny Act -- Parliament and the army / J.S. Omond -- The levée en masse -- The representatives on mission -- Saint-Juste on the army of the revolution -- The military achievements of the Committee of Public Safety / Robert R. Palmer -- The armies of the first French Republic / Ramsey W. Phipps -- The emergence of the army as a political force / Albert Sorel -- The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte -- The French Revolution and the reform of the Prussian army / Godefroy Cavaignac -- The Prussian army, 1815-1870 / Herbert Rosinski -- Bismarck on the army and parliamentary liberalism -- The Prussian army in the German empire / Gordon A. Craig -- William II on the military prerogatives and duties of the German emperor -- The army in the state, 1815-1870 / Raoul Girardet -- Debate on the political rights of the French soldier -- The army under the Third Republic / David Thomson -- General André on the politics of officer promotion -- Walther Rathenau on the industrial mobilization of Germany -- David Lloyd George on British democracy in total war -- Ludendorff on the failure of the German home front -- The dictatorship of Ludendorff, 1916-1918 / Arthur Rosenberg -- The founding of the Red Army -- The military commissars / D. Fedotov White -- The scheme for a Soviet militia -- The revolution betrayed / Leon Trotsky -- The great purge / Leonard Schapiro -- Marshal Voroshilov on the state of the army in 1939 -- Khrushchev on the military consequences of the purges -- General von Seeckt's 1920 order to the German army -- The Reichswehr and the German Republic / Harold Gordon -- The oath of the German soldiers to Hitler -- The military resistance to Hitler / Hans Rothfels -- General Guderian on the July 20, 1944, plot -- The guilt of the generals / Telford Taylor -- De Gaulle on the origins of the Free French Movement -- The collapse of the traditional military order / Paul-Marie de la Gorce -- Vichy, De Gaulle, and the French army / Marshal Alphonse Juin -- General Boyer de la Tour on the martyrdom of the French army -- The politicization of the French army under the Fourth Republic / Raoul Girardet -- De Gaulle on the 1960 and 1961 uprisings in Algeria.

LCCN

66025073

OCLC

• ocm00191815
• 191815
• SCSB-37649

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library