7 The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Esprit de Corps: A Timeline viii
5. Introduction: A Thousand Platoons – The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps 1
6. 1 Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century 33
7. 2 ‘Adunation’ of the Nation: Towards a Republican Esprit de Corps 61
8. 3 ‘We Must Hang Together’: The English Appropriation of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 87
9. 4 The Way of Napoleon: The Uniformisation of Esprit de Corps in Early Nineteenth-Century France 112
10. 5 Collective Temperament: Esprit de Corps as Sociality and Individuation in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 140
11. 6 The Mystique of Esprit de Corps in France in the Twentieth Century 166
12. 7 The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century 194
13. Conclusion: Ensemblance 230
14. Bibliography 244
15. Index 276