From Valmy to Waterloo - France At War, 1792-1815

Informationen zum Autor MARIE-CECILE THORAL is Senior Lecturer in Modern International and European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Previously she taught at Coventry University and held a post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Modern History at the University of York from 2006 to 2008, in the research project 'Nation, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in European Memories,' funded by the AHRC. Klappentext Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wide range of primary sources! this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians! the impact of these wars on the French nation and society! and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Battle Experience The War at Sea The Body in War Troop Morale and Military Unity From Individual Experience to Collective Identities  War and the Economy Civilians in the War Conclusion

List of contents

Introduction Battle Experience The War at Sea The Body in War Troop Morale and Military Unity From Individual Experience to Collective Identities War and the Economy Civilians in the War Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: M Thoral, M. Thoral, Marie-Caecile Thoral, Marie-Cecile Thoral, THORAL MARIE CECILE
• Assisted by: Godfrey Rogers (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2010
• EAN: 9780230252875
• ISBN: 978-0-230-25287-5
• No. of pages: 261
• Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850; War, Culture and Society, 1750; War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850; War, Culture and Society, 1750; War, Culture and Society, 1750 -1850; War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, History, European History, Social History, military history, Social & cultural history, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History, History of Military, France—History, History of France, France;individual;Napoleon;nation;revolution