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The People in Arms - Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (Paperback, New ed)
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The People in Arms - Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (Paperback, New ed)
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The People in Arms, first published in 2002, is concerned with the
mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting
point the French levee 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 Ancien Regime. The
levee en masse has accordingly gone down in history as a
spontaneous, free expression of the French people's ideals and
enthusiasm. It also became a crucial source for one of the most
powerful organizing myths of modern politics: that compulsory, mass
social mobilizations merely express, and give effective form to,
the wishes or higher values of society and its members. The aim of
the papers presented here is to analyse and compare episodes in
which this distinctive ideological configuration has played a
leading role.
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