Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Nineteenth Century

by Michael S. Neiberg

This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I. The French Revolution had brought to Europe the concept of military service as a citizen responsibility. Until then, armies and navies had been the province of the upper classes and of mercenaries, with authoritarian governments firmly in place that held little connection to the common person. As more democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031333269X
• ISBN13: 9780313332692
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.1"