@inbook{7c2fee2dd5484f2381a65b181f3ca16c,
title = "The Birth of Militarism in the Age of Democratic Revolutions",
abstract = "In the year 1813, as Napoleon Bonaparte{\textquoteright}s empire was crumbling, Benjamin Constant issued one of the earliest and most powerful condemnations of what we now call militarism. It was highly dangerous, he warned, {\textquoteleft}to create in a country … a large mass of men imbued with an exclusively military spirit{\textquoteright}. Would these men, at the end of a war, shed their attitudes along with their uniforms? To the contrary, {\textquoteleft}those without weapons strike them as an ignoble mob, laws as useless subtleties … opposition as disorder and reasoning as revolt{\textquoteright}. Constant insisted that in a modern world of constitutional regimes and commerce, a military {\textquoteleft}spirit of conquest{\textquoteright}was a menacing vestige of an earlier age.1",
keywords = "Civilian Control, Democratic Revolution, Military Coup, Military Service, Moral Superiority",
author = "Bell, {David A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, David A. Bell.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-137-40649-1_2",
language = "English (US)",
series = "War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "30--47",
booktitle = "War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850",
}