Conscripts and Deserters The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire

Name: Conscripts and Deserters The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire
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ISBN: 9780195059373

ISBN-10: 0195059379

ISBN-13: 9780195059373

Edition: 1989

Authors: Alan Forrest

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Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized…

Book details

List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.65" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




The Problem and Its Context



The Weight of Military Recruitment



The Extent of Evasion



The Roots of Resistance



The Deserter and Civilian Society



Desertion and Criminality



Desertion and Counterrevolution



Desertion and the French Armies



The Build-up of State Repression



Desertion, the State, and the People


Notes


Bibliography


Index