War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23129263
AutoresJames L Gormly, Geoffrey Best
Año1983
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas132
Fecha de publicación1983-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe History Teacher (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2745 • E-ISSN: 1945-2292
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/493232
OpenAlexW2060695888
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

Armed force was used to make and prevent revolution in modern Europe, and as it spread it came to determine the affairs and fates of all the European nations. Beginning with the eve of the French Revolution, Geoffrey Best explains in lively detail the vast armed forces and militarized societies of the Napoleonic age. He then proceeds to analyse the contest between Europe's continuing revolutionary underground and the armies of reactionary and alien governments that culminated with the revolutions and wars of national liberation of 1848?66. Under the banners of Napoleon Bonaparte and other warrior heroes of the epoch, a military stamp was set on the European mind, the consequences of which Best critically assesses.

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