The Army of the French Revolution : : From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power / / Jean Paul Bertaud.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bertaud, Jean Paul,
• TeilnehmendeR: Palmer, R. R.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5444
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of the firest great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, engaged in what has been called the first total war: that between revolutionary France and the other European powers. The book is a successful attempt to integrate military history with social and political history and thereby to depict the army as a "school for the republic" that by subtle changes after 1795 made way for the Napoleonic regime. The distinguished historian R.R. Palmer presents the first translation of this work into English in a volume that will quickly become indispensable for French historians, historical sociologists, and political scientists interested in armies and revolutions.The theme of the book is suggested by its French title: "the Revolution armed." That is, the book is primarily about the Revolution, and specifically the Revolution in its relation to armed force. This revolution, and this army, activated the idea of the citizen-soldier exemplified by the ancient classical republics, and favored by Jean-jacques Rousseau and other eighteenth-century thinkers, but never before realized on so large and portentous a scale as in France in the 1790s. Jean-Paul Bertaud is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris I (the Sorbonne). He has published widely in France on aspects of the French Revolution. R.R. Palmer is Professor Emeritus at Yale University and author of numerous books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959 and 1964), Twelve Who Ruled (1941), and The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution (1985), all published by Princeton University Press. He has translated many works from the French, most recently The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Herve and Alexis de TOcqueville on the Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton, 1987).Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. From the Royal Army to the Democracy in Arms (1789 to Summer 1793) -- PART TWO. The Sans-culottes, the Revolutionary Government, and the Transformation of the Army (Summer 1793 to Summer 1794) -- PART THREE. From the National and Revolutionary Army to the Army of the Coup d'Etat of Fructidor (Year III to Year V) -- CONCLUSION. The Army and Bonaparte's Coup d'Etat of 18 Brumaire, Year VIII (1799) -- APPENDIX I. A Note on Archival Sources -- APPENDIX II.Originals of Translated Verse -- APPENDIX III.A List of Relevant Books in English -- Index