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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-
- Series:
- Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Participation, Foreign.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
- Foreign enlistment--France--History.
- Foreign enlistment.
- Mercenary troops--France--History.
- Mercenary troops.
- Soldiers, Black--France--History.
- Soldiers, Black.
- Jewish soldiers--France--History.
- Jewish soldiers.
- France--History, Military--1715-1789.
- France.
- France--History, Military--1789-1815.
- France. Armee--History--19th century.
- France. Armee--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on a range of original, unpublished archival sources, Tozzi highlights the linguistic, religious, cultural, and racial differences that France's experiments with noncitizen soldiers introduced to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French society. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813938349
- 0813938341
- OCLC:
- 948297235
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