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The People in Arms
The People in Arms, first published in 2002, is concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting point the French levée en masse of 1793, which replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral claims than any that had prevailed under the Ancien Régime. The levée en masse has accordingly gone down in history as a spontaneous, free expression of the French people's ideals and enthusiasm. It also became a crucial source for one of the most powerful organizing myths of modern politics: that compulsory, mass social mobilizations merely express, and give effective form to, the wishes or higher values of society and its members. The aim of the papers presented here is to analyse and compare episodes in which this distinctive ideological configuration has played a leading role.
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict.
The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856–1956
In his groundbreaking book The British Way in Warfare (Routledge, 1990), David French outlined the skillful combination of maritime, economic and diplomatic power employed by Britain to achieve its international goals. Almost two decades later, this collection offers a reassessment of French's thesis, using it as a lens through which to explore Britain's relationship with various kinds of power (military and civil) and how this was employed across the globe. In particular, each essay addresses the ways in which the use of power manifested itself in the maintenance of Britain's place within the international system between 1856 and 1956. Adopting twin methodologies, the collection firstly add...
The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856–1956
In his groundbreaking book The British Way in Warfare (Routledge, 1990), David French outlined the skillful combination of maritime, economic and diplomatic power employed by Britain to achieve its international goals. Almost two decades later, this collection offers a reassessment of French's thesis, using it as a lens through which to explore Britain's relationship with various kinds of power (military and civil) and how this was employed across the globe. In particular, each essay addresses the ways in which the use of power manifested itself in the maintenance of Britain's place within the international system between 1856 and 1956. Adopting twin methodologies, the collection firstly add...
Bilder von Krieg und Nation
Bilder von Krieg und Nation - das sind die Vorstellungen, die es im bürgerlichen Deutschland zur Zeit der Einigungskriege über das Wechselspiel von militärischer Aktion und nationaler Identität gegeben hat und die sich in einer Vielzahl von textuellen und visuellen Zeugnissen ausgesprochen haben. Diese Zeugnisse demonstrieren, wie stark der Nationsbegriff von militärischen Denkmustern durchdrungen war und wie entschieden das Bild und der Mythos der Einigungskriege die Konzepte für den Aufbau des Nationalstaates und für die nationale Selbstdefinition prägte. Insbesondere der deutsch-französische Krieg von 1870/71 geriet zu einem politischen Mythos, an den sich zentrale soziale Leitideen knüpften: die Idee einer gelungenen Synthese von Führung und Partizipation, die Idee einer Nation, die sich vor allem den Normen des Bürgertums verpflichtet weiß. Im Ergebnis stellt sich der bürgerliche Militarismus des Kaiserreichs in einem veränderten Licht dar. Er war weniger Ausdruck von Untertanengeist, weniger Störfaktor der Modernisierung, als vielmehr selbst moderner Ausdruck einer selbstbewussten Teilhabe der bürgerlichen Schichten am neuen Nationalstaat.
Das 19. Jahrhundert und Große Themen der Geschichte Preußens
A. Epochen der preußischen Geschichte 1807-1871 I. Preußen von 1807 bis 1850: Reformen, Restauration und Revolution; II. Preußen von 1850 bis 1871: Verfassungsstaat und Reichsgründung B. Große Themen der Geschichte Preußens I. Polen in der Geschichte Preußens; II. Preußens Wirtschaft vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Nationalsozialismus; III. Das Bildungswesen in Preußen seit der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts
