The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period
The use of the term 'total war' with reference to pre-twentieth-century military conflicts has become a matter of some urgency and controversy amid nineteenth-century historians. It has been made all the more so for Napoleonic scholars by the recent appearance of David Bell's thought-...
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| description | The use of the term 'total war' with reference to pre-twentieth-century military conflicts has become a matter of some urgency and controversy amid nineteenth-century historians. It has been made all the more so for Napoleonic scholars by the recent appearance of David Bell's thought-provoking book <em>The First Total War</em>. The article attempts to counter and nuance some of Bell's major claims for the applicability of the term, through a discussion of its pertinence to the ideological and political conflicts of the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period, alongside the questions it evinces in technological and military terms. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d5410fe2-d137-456a-bac0-2692dd3bfbd82022-03-27T08:24:36ZThe concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic periodJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d5410fe2-d137-456a-bac0-2692dd3bfbd8HistoryHistory of WarEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetSAGE Publications2008Broers, MThe use of the term 'total war' with reference to pre-twentieth-century military conflicts has become a matter of some urgency and controversy amid nineteenth-century historians. It has been made all the more so for Napoleonic scholars by the recent appearance of David Bell's thought-provoking book <em>The First Total War</em>. The article attempts to counter and nuance some of Bell's major claims for the applicability of the term, through a discussion of its pertinence to the ideological and political conflicts of the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period, alongside the questions it evinces in technological and military terms. |
| spellingShingle | History History of War Broers, M The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
| title | The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
| title_full | The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
| title_fullStr | The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
| title_full_unstemmed | The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
| title_short | The concept of 'total war' in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period |
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| topic | History History of War |
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