Nationalizing France's army : foreign, black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831
The Army before the nation: foreign troops in Old Regime -- France -- Nationalizing the Army -- Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror -- The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror -- Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate --...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Charlottesville London : University of Virginia Press,
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
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| Schlagworte: | Jewish soldiers Soldiers, Black Mercenary troops Foreign enlistment Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Frankreich Soldat Ausländer Schwarze Juden |
| Umfang: | ix, 306 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The Army before the nation: foreign troops in Old RegimeFrance
- Nationalizing the Army
- Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror
- The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror
- Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate
- Revolutionary continuities: Napoleon's foreign troops
- Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France
- Conclusion: Foreign soldiers and the revolutionary legacy
- Appendices
- A. Places of birth for troops in foreign regiments
- B. The foreign regiments in 1789.