Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-24917-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4728 g

Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Facing the Revolution: The German States from 1789 to 1815 2. Writing War 3. Military Life and Combat 4. Captivity and Travel 5. Invasion and Occupation 6. Resistance and Liberation Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Leighton S. James is Lecturer in European History at the University of Swansea, UK. His research interests include military-civilian relations, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, labour history and social history. He has previously worked on the history of south Wales and Ruhr coalfields. He is the author of The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: The Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926.