War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870

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 governments that culminated with the revolutions and wars of national liberation of 1848-66. Under the banners of Napoleon Bonaparte and other warrior heroes of the epoch, a military stamp was set on the European mind, the consequences of which Best critically assesses.Best, Geoffrey is the author of 'War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870', published 1982 under ISBN 9780312855512 and ISBN 0312855516.