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The legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars : the nation-in-arms in French republican memory /

A major contribution to the study of collective identity and memory in France, this book examines a French republican myth: the belief that the nation can be adequately defended only by its own citizens, in the manner of the French revolutionaries of 1793. Alan Forrest examines the image of the citi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forrest, Alan I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Colección:Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating the legend
  • Napoleon and the blurring of memory
  • Voices from the past
  • The hollow years
  • The Franco-Prussian War
  • The army of the Third Republic
  • Educating the army
  • Educating the republic
  • The First World War
  • Last stirrings.