The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501709291 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorChristy Pichichero is Assistant Professor of French at George Mason University.
Christy Pichichero is Assistant Professor of French at George Mason University.
From Louis XIV through Napoleon, from Canada to the Caribbean and India, the military was one of the few institutions of the Old Regime to transform progressive theories into practice, actually operationalizing the Enlightenment.Pichichero isolates and examines a crisis in consciousness that has characterized attitudes toward war from the eighteenth century until today. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. The demands of global political power warrant an ever more formidable and efficient fiscal-military state, and at the same time, awareness of the “human factor” generates the desire to minimize the devastation of war on cities and landscapes, and civilians, as well as the mind, body, and heart of the soldier. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and