Giant of the Grand Siecle - The French Army, 1610-1715 (Hardcover, New)

An "invisible giant," the seventeeth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy; yet it has received incomplete treatment and is poorly understood. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of officers, leadership, administration, logistics, weaponry, tactics, field warfare, and siegecraft. The portrait that emerges differs from what current scholarship might have predicted. Instead of claiming that a "military revolution" transformed warfare, Lynn stresses evolutionary change. Questioning widely-held assumptions about state formation and coercion, he argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defense, and only rarely to internal repression.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	John A. Lynn
Dimensions:	237 x 162 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	672
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-57273-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-57273-8
Barcode:	9780521572736

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