The military enlightenment : : war and culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon / / Christy Pichichero.
"Combines the study of literary works, treatises of moral philosophy, and archival military writings to show the ways that the military sphere both generated and applied French Enlightenment ideas with regard to the phenomenon of war, the human body and emotions, social equality, and human righ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what is military Enlightenment?
- The French military Enlightenment : figures, forces, and forms
- Before fraternity : martial masculinity, sociability, and community
- Humanity in war : military cultures of sensibilite and human rights
- A nation of warriors : the democratization of heroism
- The dialectic of military Enlightenment : the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras
- Epilogue : the modern heritage.