ARMIES AND SOCIETIES IN EUROPE, 1494-1789, 

A Corvisier, 

Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1979. first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, Fine/Fine- condition( very light scuffing on front dj cover), ix, 209 pages, index. 

Translated from the French by Abigail T. SiddallIn an outstanding work of synthesis based on many years of research, one of France's leading military historians examines European military history within the perspective of social and economic change.   Corvisier's work demonstrates the close and complex relationship between a society and its army. Just as European society changed greatly between 1494 and 1789, a fundamental change took place in the role of the military. During the ancien regime, the professional use of arms evolved from a private to a public institution and the military became the essential instrument of state power.


 As Corvisier shows, warfare long the sole preserve of the nobility soon transcended the interests of a single class. He concludes that a military mentality was more pervasive in early modern Europe than has been assumed. .

 Part One examines the relationship between the developing states of Europe and their armies, from early medieval baronial bands to the government-controlled national instruments of the eighteenth century.

 Parts Two and Three deal with the evolution of army organization and administration, civilian attitudes, and social relationships within the armies. The author analyzes data from the various countries of Europe over a period of three centuries, thus making this work chronologically and geographically comprehensive. 

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