Conscripts and deserters : the army and French society during the Revolution and Empire /

Conscripts and deserters : the army and French society during the Revolution and Empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Forrest, Alan I.
Uniform title:	Déserteurs et insoumis sous la Révolution et l'Empire. English
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subject:	France. -- Armée -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. France. -- Armée -- History -- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. France. -- Armée -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. France. -- Armée. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Desertions -- France. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Draft resisters -- France. Desertion, Military. Draft resisters. Recruiting and enlistment. France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815. France. History. Military history. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178216

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ISBN:	9780195363128 0195363124 9786610605378 6610605378 0195059379 9780195059373
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289). Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, VLEbooks 400 User Credits. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. Print version record.
Summary:	Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social f.
Other form:	Print version: Forrest, Alan I. Déserteurs et insoumis sous la Révolution et l'Empire. English. Conscripts and deserters. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

Table of Contents:

The problem and its context
The weight of military recruitment
The extent of evasion
The roots of resistance
The deserter and civilian society
Desertion and criminality
Desertion and counterrevolution
Desertion and the French armies
The build-up of state repression
Desertion, the state, and the people.