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War in an Age of Revolution, 1775–1815

Roger Chickering editor Stig Forster editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Feb '10

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The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic.

The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to do with the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic - the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare. Among the topics covered in the volume are the global dimensions of warfare, logistics, universal military service and the mobilization of noncombatants, occupation, and the impact of war on civilian life in both Europe and North America.

"An excellent historiographic review on the 'military revolution' of the early modern era, what it was and what its critics assert it was not, opens this collection." -Dieter K. Buse, Canadian Journal of History

ISBN: 9780521899963

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 30mm

Weight: 720g

434 pages