Daniel Moran / Arthur Waldron (eds.)

The People in Arms

Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French Revolution
Herausgeber: Moran, Daniel; Waldron, Arthur

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2002 book discusses the history of the mass mobilization of society for the purposes of war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814324
• ISBN-10: 0521814324
• Artikelnr.: 26718996

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: the legend of the levée en masse Daniel Moran
2. La patrie en danger: the French Revolution and the first levée en masse Alan Forrest
3. The historiography of the levée en masse of 1793 Owen Connelly
4. Arms and the concert: the nation in arms and the dilemmas of German liberalism Daniel Moran
5. American views of conscription and the German nation in arms in the Franco-Prussian war John Whiteclay Chambers II
6. Defining the enemy: war, law and the levée en masse from 1870 to 1945 John Horne
7. People's war: the German debate about a levée en masse in October 1918 Michael Geyer
8. The levée en masse from Russian empire to Soviet Union, 1874-1938 Mark Von Hagen
9. From Jaurès to Mao: the levée en masse in China Arthur Waldron
10. In lieu of the levée en masse: mass mobilization in modern Vietnam Greg Lockhart
11. The Algerian war (1954-1962): the inversion of the levée en masse Douglas Porch
12. Looking backward: the people in arms and the transformation of war Arthur Waldron
Index.