Concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war, this study starts with the French levee en masse of 1793. It replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral claims than any that had prevailed under the Old Regime. These papers analyze and compare episodes .
Language
English
Pages
282
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
December 05, 2002
ISBN
0521814324
ISBN 13
9780521814324
The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French Revolution
Concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war, this study starts with the French levee en masse of 1793. It replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral claims than any that had prevailed under the Old Regime. These papers analyze and compare episodes .