Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831

Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831

Foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

ix, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

355.00944 T736 2016

(OCoLC)928488264

"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-299) and index.
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.
William Tate (an original member of SC Society) mentioned: p. 104-106.
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SOC acknowledged (p. [vii]).
The author was a 2014 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati fellow.

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