Giant Of The Grand Si Cle
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Giant Of The Grand Si Cle
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Author : John A. Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-14
Giant Of The Grand Si Cle written by John A. Lynn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-14 with History categories.
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.
Giant Of The Grand Si Cle
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Author : John A. Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-13
Giant Of The Grand Si Cle written by John A. Lynn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-13 with History categories.
An 'invisible giant', the seventeenth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy. 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. This work also offers surprising insights into absolutism and the relationship between the monarchy and aristocracy. Questioning widely held assumptions about state formation and coercion, Lynn argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defence and only rarely to internal repression.
The French Wars 1667 1714
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Author : John A Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-06
The French Wars 1667 1714 written by John A Lynn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with History categories.
Campaigns fought by Louis XIV, the Sun King, shaped the borders of European states, the destinies of royal dynasties, and even the patterns of absolutist government. This book presents the most authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of these all-important struggles available today, covering every aspect of the wars from decisions made by the king at his palace at Versailles to the life of the troops encamped in the field. Focusing on the French army, the greatest military force of the age, this tale of violence, victory, and victims balances siege and battle in a way that tells us much that is new about the Sun King and his adversaries.
Forging Napoleon S Grande Arm E
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Author : Michael J. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-05-07
Forging Napoleon S Grande Arm E written by Michael J. Hughes and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied to the side of a man who wanted to dominate Europe. What was behind this drastic change of heart? In this ground-breaking study, Michael J. Hughes shows how Napoleonic military culture shaped the motivation of Napoleon’s soldiers. Relying on extensive archival research and blending cultural and military history, Hughes demonstrates that the Napoleonic regime incorporated elements from both the Old Regime and French Revolutionary military culture to craft a new military culture, characterized by loyalty to both Napoleon and the preservation of French hegemony in Europe. Underscoring this new, hybrid military culture were five sources of motivation: honor, patriotism, a martial and virile masculinity, devotion to Napoleon, and coercion. Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée vividly illustrates how this many-pronged culture gave Napoleon’s soldiers reasons to fight.
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
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Author : Brent L. Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors written by Brent L. Sterling and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Political Science categories.
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.
The Shaping Of Grand Strategy
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Author : Williamson Murray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-14
The Shaping Of Grand Strategy written by Williamson Murray and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with History categories.
Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
A Social And Cultural History Of Early Modern France
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Author : William Beik
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-14
A Social And Cultural History Of Early Modern France written by William Beik and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-14 with History categories.
A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.
Nostalgia
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Author : Helmut Illbruck
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Nostalgia written by Helmut Illbruck and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Medical categories.
Helmut Illbruck traces the concept of nostalgia from the earliest uses of the term in the seventeenth century to today as it evolves with different meanings and intensities in the discourses of medicine, literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. Following nostalgia’s troubled relations to the philosophical project of the Enlightenment, Illbruck’s study builds a cumulative argument about nostalgia’s modern significance that often revises and thoroughly enriches our understanding of cultural, literary, and intellectual history. Illbruck concludes with an attempt at a reinterpretation and defense of nostalgia, which seduces us to read and think with, rather than against, nostalgia’s wistful yearning for the past. Nostalgia: Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened Disease is a comprehensive, insistent, and profound interdisciplinary investigation of the history of an idea. It should appeal to readers interested in the cultural makings of the Enlightenment and modernity or in the histories of medicine, literature, and philosophy.
Sword Of The Sun
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Author : Steven Andrew Beckman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Sword Of The Sun written by Steven Andrew Beckman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with France categories.
This dissertation explores the career of Marshal Louis François Boufflers, one of the most important marshals of Louis XIV’s Army. The increasing subordination of the army and its generals to the control of the regime of Louis XIV was integral to the growth of the modern state in France. This dissertation utilizes Boufflers’s career to investigate the conduct of professionalization of the French army, the impact of patronage on its officer corps, examine civilian-military interactions during the Wars of Louis XIV, and finally, the art of command in Louis XIV’s army. Because the French army grew massively from a quarrelsome/quasi-independent force of 70,000 in 1659 to the giant of the Grand Siècle totaling more than 400,000 soldiers by 1693, these themes of significant institutional and organizational growth parallel the rise of Boufflers from a young lieutenant to a Marshal of France and member of Louis’s War Council. As a witness to an agent in such transformation, Boufflers is the critical figure through which the relationships between the military and the court are best revealed. Further Boufflers emergence as a French “military celebrity” towards the end of his career sheds light on how Louis’s generals and his wars were discussed in the contemporary press. Finally, the fact that events for Boufflers is most well known the defenses of Namur (1695), Lille (1708) and commanding the army at Malplaquet (1709) all “defeats” that Boufflers in fact received rewards and commendations for challenges the notion of what success looked like in warfare of this period. Boufflers’s experience as a career French officer exposes how the mechanics of patronage, professionalization worked against the backdrop of Louis XIV’s wars.
Queen Of Versailles
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Author : Mark Bryant
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2020-10-22
Queen Of Versailles written by Mark Bryant and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.