Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831 / Christopher J. Tozzi.

Author
Tozzi, Christopher J., 1986- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Description
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Series
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • 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
  • 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.
Other title(s)
Foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831
ISBN
  • 9780813938332 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0813938333 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780813938349 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0813938341 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
948297235
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