Citizens, soldiers and national armies
Subtitle: military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830
By: by Thomas Hippler.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415409797
Subjects: Draft -- France; Draft -- Germany -- Prussia; France -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc; France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815; France -- History, Military -- 19th century; Prussia (Germany) -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc; Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 18th century; Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: citizenship and discipline; title: First part: the French moment; title: State-construction and recruitment policy in the ancien regime; title: From feudal recruitment to touting; title: The militia (and how to escape from it); title: Soldiers and the state; title: The Enlightenment and military service; title: Virtue-politics; title: Rousseau and the military: a philosophy of civic practice; title: Citizen-soldiers; title: Popular arming and military service in the French Revolution; title: The formation of the National Guard; title: The 1789-90 debate on the "military constitution"; title: Armed forces and levies of volunteers in 1791-3; title: Citizenship or discipline?; title: Unifying the public force; title: The revolutionary state and the "nation in arms"; title: Quatre-vingt-treize; title: "Death is a reminder of equality": the self-creation of the people; title: Abstraction and identification; title: Military experiences; title: Constructing a popular state; title: Transition: technologies of the state from France to Prussia; title: Second part: the Prussian moment; title: Military, society, and the state in old regime Prussia; title: State-construction and military duties; title: The establishment of the canton system; title: Social implementation; title: Criticism of the Prussian military system; title: German idealism and military service; title: The challenge of revolutionary war to German culture; title: Interpreting the Revolution: the reform as theory; title: Kant's heroic humiliation; title: Fichte's inner frontier; title: Conscription in the reformed Prussian state; title: Empowering the nation; title: The principles of the military reform; title: Creating a body politic; title: Principles of stratification; title: The path to national war; title: National war and conscription; title: Organizing an insurrection; title: Constitution and terror; title: Popular arming; title: Conscription; title: Conclusion.