The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French RevolutionDaniel Moran, Arthur Waldron The People in Arms is concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting point the French levée en masse of 1793, which replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral claims than any that had prevailed under the Old Regime. The aim of the papers presented here is less to trace the historical memory and influence of the original levée as such than to analyze and compare episodes in which the distinctive ideological configuration that it typified plays a leading role. |
Contents
The Historiography of the Levée en masse of 1793 | 33 |
The Nation in Arms and | 49 |
American Views of Conscription and the German Nation | 75 |
War Law and the Levée en masse | 100 |
The German Debate About a Levée en masse | 119 |
The Levée en masse from Russian Empire to Soviet Union | 159 |
The Levée en masse in China | 189 |
Mass Mobilization | 208 |
The Inversion of | 234 |
The People in Arms and | 256 |
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