The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution

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Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: the legend of the levee en masse Daniel Moran 2. La patrie en danger: the French Revolution and the first levee en masse Alan Forrest 3. The historiography of the levee en masse of 1793 Owen Connelly 4. Arms and the concert: the nation in arms and the dilemmas of German liberalism Daniel Moran 5. American views of conscription and the German nation in arms in the Franco-Prussian war John Whiteclay Chambers II 6. Defining the enemy: war, law and the levee en masse from 1870 to 1945 John Horne 7. People's war: the German debate about a levee en masse in October 1918 Michael Geyer 8. The levee en masse from Russian empire to Soviet Union, 1874-1938 Mark Von Hagen 9. From Jaures to Mao: the levee en masse in China Arthur Waldron 10. In lieu of the levee en masse: mass mobilization in modern Vietnam Greg Lockhart 11. The Algerian war (1954-1962): the inversion of the levee en masse Douglas Porch 12. Looking backward: the people in arms and the transformation of war Arthur Waldron Index.

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