How Long to Read Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies

How Long Does it Take to Read Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies by Thomas Hippler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book examines the creation of ‘national armies’ through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become a means of oppression against the people, the whole population should thus ‘be’ the army. Defeated by the enormous military potential that these new political settings had unchained in France, Prussia adapted the French innovations to its own needs, thus laying the basis for its contributions to the victories of the coalition troops in 1813-15. Conscription had implications that went beyond the purely military sphere and involved assumptions about the nature of the state and its relationship to its citizens. It was the material basis of Napoleon’s campaigns and of the German ‘wars of national liberation’ of 1813-15, before becoming a cornerstone of the Prussian Reforms and the creation of a civil society ‘from above’. Military service has therefore been one of the most essential and contradictory institutions of the modern nation-state. Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies will be of interest to historians of modern Europe, military historians and students of intellectual history in general.

How long is Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies?

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies by Thomas Hippler is 490 pages long, and a total of 122,500 words.

This makes it 165% the length of the average book. It also has 150% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 9 minutes to read Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies aloud.

What Reading Level is Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies?

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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