War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870: Volume 3

by Geoffrey Best

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773517618
• ISBN13: 9780773517615
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"