War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 (War and European Society Series)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780773517615
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 18th Century; Military Sociology; Revolutions; Political Science; History - Military / War; Military; Europe; Modern - 19th Century; Military - General; General; Military - Other
First sentence: What did people know of war in the last twenty years of the ancien regime?
Description: "Beginning with the armies, navies and internal security forces of Europe on the eve of the French Revolution, the author explains in detail the vast armed forces and militarized societies of the Napoleonic age. He then proceeds to an analysis of the contest between Europe's continuing revolutionary underground and the armies of reactionary and alien governments, culminating with the revolutions and wars of national liberation of 1848-66"--Jacket.