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Author Hippler, Thomas, 1972-

Title Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830 / Thomas Hippler
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
Series War, history and politics series
War, history and politics series.
Contents Introduction: citizenship and discipline -- First part: the French moment -- State-construction and recruitment policy in the ancien regime -- From feudal recruitment to touting -- The militia (and how to escape from it) -- Soldiers and the state -- The Enlightenment and military service -- Virtue-politics -- Rousseau and the military: a philosophy of civic practice -- Citizen-soldiers -- Popular arming and military service in the French Revolution -- The formation of the National Guard -- The 1789-90 debate on the "military constitution" -- Armed forces and levies of volunteers in 1791-3 -- Citizenship or discipline? -- Unifying the public force -- The revolutionary state and the "nation in arms" -- Quatre-vingt-treize -- "Death is a reminder of equality": the self-creation of the people -- Abstraction and identification -- Military experiences -- Constructing a popular state -- Transition: technologies of the state from France to Prussia -- Second part: the Prussian moment -- Military, society, and the state in old regime Prussia -- State-construction and military duties -- The establishment of the canton system -- Social implementation -- Criticism of the Prussian military system -- German idealism and military service -- The challenge of revolutionary war to German culture -- Interpreting the Revolution: the reform as theory -- Kant's heroic humiliation -- Fichte's inner frontier -- Conscription in the reformed Prussian state -- Empowering the nation -- The principles of the military reform -- Creating a body politic -- Principles of stratification -- The path to national war -- National war and conscription -- Organizing an insurrection -- Constitution and terror -- Popular arming -- Conscription -- Conclusion
Summary "Compulsory military service implies a contradiction: conceived as an element and a guarantee of the citizens' active participation in politics, it is at the same time an institution of social discipline that separates the citizens from the civil society. This tension between citizenship and discipline thus poses concretely the problem of political liberty. While being egalitarian in its principle, conscription concerns only the male parts of the population. The exclusion of women echoes their exclusion from political rights. Moreover, the universality of the obligation is in constant tension with particular class interests." "Rather than opposing a French model of republican conscription to a Prussian militarism, this book tries to show how Prussia has replied dialectically to the revolutionary institution of mass violence. The French Revolution and the Prussian Reforms are thus conceived of as two moments within a single process which is intrinsically transnational. The book seeks to confront the philosophical problem of political liberty - as it was formulated most prominently by Rousseau and Kant - to history and relies on official sources, philosophical texts, as well as ego-documents, which are subjective articulations of political modernity."--Jacket
Notes Translated from the French
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-252) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Draft -- France
Draft -- Germany -- Prussia
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
Draft
Recruiting and enlistment
SUBJECT France -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051433
France -- History, Military -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051434
Prussia (Germany) -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 18th century
Prussia (Germany) -- History, Military -- 19th century
Subject France
Germany -- Prussia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203089118
0203089111
9781134130030
1134130031
0415409799
9780415409797
Other Titles Soldats et citoyens. English