Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831 / Christopher J. Tozzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tozzi, Christopher J., 1986- author.

Series:

Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.

Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France. Armée--History--18th century.

France.

France. Armée--History--19th century.

France. Armée.

Foreign enlistment.

History.

Mercenary troops.

Soldiers, Black.

Jewish soldiers.

France--History, Military--1789-1815.

History, Military.

Jewish soldiers--France--History.

Soldiers, Black--France--History.

Mercenary troops--France--History.

Foreign enlistment--France--History.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Participation, Foreign.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

France--History, Military--1715-1789.

Military participation--Foreign.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Contents:

The Army before the nation: foreign troops in Old Regime

France

Nationalizing the Army

Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror

The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror

Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate

Revolutionary continuities: Napoleon's foreign troops

Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France

Conclusion: Foreign soldiers and the revolutionary legacy

Appendices

A. Places of birth for troops in foreign regiments

B. The foreign regiments in 1789.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813938332

0813938333

OCLC:

928488264