Format:
X, 260 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0415409799
,
9780415409797
Series Statement:
War, history and politics series
Uniform Title:
Soldats et citoyens 〈engl.〉
Content:
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 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Teilw. zugl.: Florenz, Univ., Diss., 2002 u.d.T.: Hippler, Thomas: Citizenship and discipline: popular arming and military service in revolutionary France and reform in Prussia
,
Introduction: citizenship and disciplineFirst 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0203089111
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203089118
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Wehrdienst
;
Wehrpflicht
;
Entstehung
;
Geschichte 1791-1793
;
Preußen
;
Preußische Reformen
;
Wehrpflicht
;
Wehrdienst
;
Geschichte 1806-1813
;
Frankreich
;
Preußen
;
Wehrdienst
;
Wehrpflicht
;
Entstehung
;
Preußische Reformen
;
Geschichte 1789-1830
;
Hochschulschrift
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101511.html
Author information:
Hippler, Thomas 1972-
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