| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Esprit de Corps: A Timeline -- Introduction: A Thousand Platoons - The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps -- 1 Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century -- 2 'Adunation' of the Nation: Towards a Republican Esprit de Corps -- 3 'We Must Hang Together': The English Appropriation of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Way of Napoleon: The Uniformisation of Esprit de Corps in Early Nineteenth-Century France -- 5 Collective Temperament: Esprit de Corps as Sociality and Individuation in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Mystique of Esprit de Corps in France in the Twentieth Century -- 7 The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: Ensemblance -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Through several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Loyalty -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Loyalty -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Combat -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474454223 |
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1474454224 |
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9781474454216 |
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1474454216 |
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