War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870

Download or read book War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870 written by Geoffrey Best and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the armies, navies and internal security forces of Europe on the eve of the French Revolution, the author explains in detail the vast armed forces and militarized societies of the Napoleonic age. He then proceeds to an analysis of the contest between Europe's continuing revolutionary underground and the armies of reactionary and alien governments, culminating with the revolutions and wars of national liberation of 1848-66.