By Diane E. Davis and Anthony W. Pereira, eds.
This publication examines various comparative and ancient studies during which abnormal militia (ranging from militias, paramilitaries, guerrillas, bandits, mercenaries, vigilantes, and police forces to armed veteran teams) have struggled opposed to or on behalf of nationwide states. The learn hopes to elevate questions about the hot political relevance of those kinds of militia. It considers the stipulations below which they're extra major than traditional army body of workers in supplanting or undermining states, and their broader function in nationwide political improvement.
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The largest military engagement took place in 1847. The federal diet ordered dissolution of the league (Sonderbund) formed for mutual defense by Catholic cantons Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Fribourg, and Valais two years earlier; when the Catholic cantons refused, the diet sent an army to Fribourg (whose forces capitulated without serious fighting), then Lucerne (where a short battle occurred). The Sonderbund had about 79,000 men under arms, the federation some 99,000. After two more weeks of skirmishing and cleaning up, the Sonderbund War ended with twenty-four dead among the Catholic forces and seventy-four dead among the attackers.
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Zaverucha, Jorge. 1993. “The Degree of Military Political Autonomy during the Spanish Argentine and Brazilian Transitions,” Journal of Latin American Studies 25, 2: 283–300. part i THE BASIC FRAMEWORK AND BEYOND Mobilization, Demobilization, and National State Formation 2 Armed Force, Regimes, and Contention in Europe since 1650 Charles Tilly Contention and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century Switzerland As seen in the vivid light cast by French and British examples, Switzerland followed an astonishing path to partial democracy during the nineteenth century.