War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870: Volume 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780773517615)

Armed force was used to make and prevent revolution in modern Europe, and as it spread it came to determine the affairs and fates of all the European nations. Beginning with the eve of the French Revolution, Geoffrey Best explains in lively detail the vast armed forces and militarized societies of the Napoleonic age. He then proceeds to analyse the contest between Europe's continuing revolutionary underground and the armies of reactionary and alien governments that culminated with the revolutions and wars of national liberation of 1848?66. Under the banners of Napoleon Bonaparte and other warrior heroes of the epoch, a military stamp was set on the European mind, the consequences of which Best critically assesses.

Author: Geoffrey Best
ISBN-10: 0773517618
ISBN-13: 9780773517615
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/1998
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.06w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/1999 pg. 72 - Strongly Recommended