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The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon

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The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon - Pichichero, Christy L.
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The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. 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. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical ...

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The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon 2021, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9781501752063

Trade paperback

The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon 2017, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9781501709296

Hardcover