This collection probes the troubling connections between war and republic during Revolutionary era, 1776-1840. It presents the work of an international team of scholars, some of them in English for the first time.

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Marc Belissa, directeur de recherches, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Annie Crépin, former maître de conférences, l'Université d'Artois, France Bernard Gainot, honorary maître de conférences, Université Paris I, France Sylvie Kleinman, Research Associate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Virginie Martin, maître de conférences, Institut de l'Histoire de la Révolution Française Frédéric Régent, maître de conférences, Université Paris I, France Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Professor, Université Paris Diderot, France Pedro Rújula, Professor, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Mario Tosti, Professor, University of Perugia, Italy Katia Visconti, researcher, University of Insubria-Varese, Italy

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Acknowledgements List of Maps List of Abbreviations Map 1. Italy in 1797 Map 2. The Caribbean in 1789 Introduction; Pierre Serna PART I: CALLING FOR 'REPUBLICAN' WAR 1. The American Origins of the French Revolutionary War; Antonino De Francesco 2. In Search of a Glorious Peace? Republican Diplomats at War, 1792 1799; Virginie Martin 3. Can a Powerful Republic Be Peaceful? The Debate of Year IV on the Place of France in the European Order; Marc Belissa 4. Theobald Wolfe Tone's Mission to France 1796 1798; Sylvie Kleinman PART II: CITIZENSHIP AND ' REPUBLICAN' WAR 5. A 'Black Declaration of Independence'? War, Republic, and Race in the United States of America, 1775 1787; Marie-Jeanne Rossignol 6. The Army of the Republic: New warfare and a new army; Annie Crépin 7. A Patriotic School: The Recruitment of the Italian Legion in France, 1799 1800'; Katia Visconti 8. From Individual to Collective Emancipation: War and the Republic in the Caribbean during the French Revolution; Frédéric Régent PART III: REJECTING 'REPUBLICAN' WAR 9. Fratricide: Tragic Brothers, Masculine Violence and the Republic on the French Stage, 1799; Judith A. Miller 10. War and Citizenship: Central Italy, 1798 1799; Bernard Gainot 11. The Strength of Weapons, the Strength of Opinions: Counter-Revolution in the Papal States, 1790 1799; Mario Tosti 12. International War, National War, Civil War: Spain and Counterrevolution, 1793 1840; Pedro Rújula Bibliography