Writings on Standing Armies
Whether arms should be entrusted to a standing army (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century pamphlets on the standing armies controversy of 1697-98. David Womersley's introduction situates these texts in the European debate about standing armies as opposed to militias and pla…
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- ISBN: 978-0-86597-911-6
- EAN: 9780865979116
- Produktnummer: 34141587
- Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 746 S.
- Masse: H16.3 cm x B23.8 cm x D4.8 cm 1'174 g
- Gewicht: 1174
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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