The people in arms
Subtitle: military myth and national mobilization since the French Revolution
By: edited by Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron.
Contributors: Moran, Daniel.; Waldron, Arthur.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Draft -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Draft -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Armed Forces -- Mobilization -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Armed Forces -- Mobilization -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the Seminar on Force in History, which was held at the Institut for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The legend of the levée en masse / Daniel Moran; title: La patrie en danger : the French Revolution and the first levée en masse / Alan Forrest; title: The historiography of the levée en masse of 1793 / Owen Connelly; title: Arms and the concert : the nation in arms and the dilemmas of German liberalism / Daniel Moran; title: American views of conscription and the German nation in arms in the Franco-Prussian War / John Whiteclay Chambers II; title: Defining the enemy : war, law, and the levée en masse from 1870 to 1945 / John Horne; title: People's war : the German debate about a levée en masse in October 1918 / Michael Geyer; title: The levée en masse from Russian empire to Soviet Union, 1874-1938 / Mark von Hagen; title: From Jaures t̀o Mao : the levée en masse in China / Arthur Waldron; title: In lieu of the levée en masse : mass mobilization in modern Vietnam / Greg Lockhart; title: The Algerian war (1954-1962) : the inversion of the levée en masse / Douglas Porch; title: Looking backward : the people in arms and the transformation of war / Arthur Waldron.