The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
192 Chapter Six volunteers. Despite certain gestures in the direction of revolutionary ideals,^14 it seems fair to say that the ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 193 and other necessities, and often added to the prevailing economic disorder by ...
(^194) Chapter Six Urban unrest and distress, which had done so much to set the revolution in motion, did not disappear; but the ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 195 tories were improvised in Paris and other cities.^24 Something like the progr ...
196 Chapter Six need. His imperious demand was, of course, backed by an implicit threat: whoever did not contribute was in dange ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions^197 sticks, much of the effort was undoubtedly inefficient. But all the same, thi ...
(^198) Chapter Six revolutionary performance conformed roughly to new tactical ideas developed in the French army after 1763. At ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 199 meager stores when forced contributions and outright plunder of the newly occ ...
(^200) Chapter Six it became standard to draw lots to determine who would march off to the army; but revolutionary equality was ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 201 more densely populated parts of western Europe where it was difficult to meet ...
202 Chapter Six Russian state interests. But this, in effect, was the choice that the sudden upthrust of French and British powe ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 203 no way in which satisfactory substitutes for tea, coffee, sugar, raw cotton, ...
204 Chapter Six ficiencies of supply from the rear simply intensified the hostility of the local population, whether in East Pru ...
The Old Regime at Sea The ships portrayed here show how warship design altered from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in ...
206 Chapter Six In relying on carts to supply his army, Napoleon was, in effect, pitting them against water transport, for the t ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 207 transport was essential to the whole development, both for importing raw mate ...
208 Chapter Six men were carried on the rolls of the two armed services,^45 i.e., nearly 4 percent of the entire active work for ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 209 tially emptied out during the war years, and for a decade or so south ern Ir ...
(^210) Chapter Six sonnel of the most diverse sort to keep the exchange economy run ning as smoothly as it did. No one planned ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions^211 emmental subsidies to continental allies, and without the transfer of effecti ...
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