Soldiers and civilization : how the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence / Reed Robert Bonadonna.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-330) and index.

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Introduction: history and military professionalism -- Greeks and Macedonians: poetry, philosophy, and the phalanx -- Romans: legis et legio -- Late antiquity: pagan warriors and barbaric Christians -- The Middle Ages: chivalry and Christianity -- The early modern period: the army and the state -- The eighteenth century: soldiers of the Enlightenment -- Napoleon and the nineteenth century: revolution, reaction, and expansion -- The twentieth century: a world of conflict -- Conclusion: the twenty-first century: a century of the soldier?.

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