Writings on Standing Armies

Whether arms should be entrusted to a "standing army" (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century pamphlets on the standing armies controversy of 1697-98. David Womersley's introduction situates these texts in the European debate about standing armies as opposed to militias and places them in the narrower context of specifically English altercations.

Product details

• Assisted by: David Womersley (Editor)
• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780865979116
• ISBN: 978-0-86597-911-6
• No. of pages: 746
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 163 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 1174 g
• Series: Thomas Hollis Library
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous