Conscription in the Napoleonic Era

Donald Stoker is Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College’s Monterey Program in Monterey, California. Harold D. Blanton is Professor of Strategy and Policy and Associate Chairman of the US Naval War College’s Monterey Program.Frederick C. Schneid is Professor of History at High Point University.

• Introduction Frederick C. Schneid. Conscription in France During the Era of Napoleon Harold D. Blanton. Meeting the French Challenge: Conscription in Prussia, 1807–1815 Dierk Walter. Conscription in Russia in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: "For Faith, Tsar and Motherland" Alexander Mikaberidze. Conscription in the Habsburg Empire to 1815 Arthur Mark Boerke The Recruitment of Seamen for the British Navy, 1793–1815: "Why Don’t You Raise More Men?" Kevin McCrainie. Conscription in Spain in the Napoleonic Era Charles J. Esdaile. Conscription and Desertion in Napoleonic Italy, 1802–1814 Alexander Grab. Recruitment and Conscription in the Kingdom of Westphalia: "The Palladium of Westphalian Freedom" Michael F. Pavkovic. Filling the Ranks: Recruitment and Conscription for the Danish-Norwegian Army during the Napoleonic Era Karsten Skjold Petersen. Manning the Armed Forces: The Swedish Solution Fredrik Thisner. Conscription in Mehmed Ali’s Egypt – A Napoleonic Legacy John P. Dunn. Napoleonic Conscription and the Militarization of Europe? Frederick C. Schneid

'This book is essential reading not just for military historians but for all those interested in the emergence of the modern nation state or in the dynamics of the relationship between state and society.' - Ian Germani, Journal of Military History