Ensemblance : : The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps / / Luis de Miranda.

Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history?Unveils the hidden and conflicting ideologies at stake behind the concept of esprit de corps and its contemporary uses Focuses on the discursive uses of esprit de corps in various transnational contexts and in the long term, from 1700 to present times...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Esprit de Corps: A Timeline
  • Introduction: A Thousand Platoons – The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps
  • 1 Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century
  • 2 ‘Adunation’ of the Nation: Towards a Republican Esprit de Corps
  • 3 ‘We Must Hang Together’: The English Appropriation of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 4 The Way of Napoleon: The Uniformisation of Esprit de Corps in Early Nineteenth-Century France
  • 5 Collective Temperament: Esprit de Corps as Sociality and Individuation in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
  • 6 The Mystique of Esprit de Corps in France in the Twentieth Century
  • 7 The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century
  • Conclusion: Ensemblance
  • Bibliography
  • Index