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CHICKERING Roger, FÖRSTER StigWar in an age of Revolution, 1775-1815Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2010, XII-422 p.Collection Publications of the German Historical InstituteISBN 978-0-521-89996-3Résumé :This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to do with the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides such warfare extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare. Among the topics covered in the volume are the global dimensions of warfare, logistics, universal military service and the mobilization of noncombatants, occupation, and the impact of war on civilian life in both Europe and North America.Roger Chickering is professor of history at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University. His recent publications include The great war and urban life in Germany : Freiburg, 1914-1918 (2007) and A world at total war : global conflict and the politics od destruction, 1937-1945 (2005), coedited with Stig Föster and Bernd Grenier.Stof Förster is professor of General Modern History at the University of Bern and has also taught at the University of Augsburg and held research fellowships at the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C. His most recent publications include Der doppelte militarismus. Die deutsche heeresrüstungspolitik zwischen status-quo-sicherung und agressions, 1890-1913 (1985) and Die mächtigen diener der East Indian Company. Ursachen und Hintergrunde der britischen Expansionspolitik in Südasien, 1793-1819 (1992)Axe de recherches : ANR - CIRCULATION ET CONSTRUCTION DES SAVOIRS POLICIERS EUROPÉENS (1650-1850)