Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820

ISBN-13: 9780230545342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str.

Karen Hagermann; Alan Forrest; Jane Rendall

Opis

The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars have been described as the first 'total war', which affected millions of people's lives and brought a whole continent into contact with armies and bloodshed. But the extent to which the constant state of war that existed between 1792 and 1815 shaped everyday experience has been much less studied, even although these wars, conducted by mass armies and often mobilized by patriotism, led to the circulation of millions of people throughout Europe and beyond. The changing nature of warfare had far-reaching consequences for civil society as well as for those directly engaged in fighting. This volume of essays by international scholars examines the formative experiences of men and women - soldiers, citizens and civilians - in the years 1792-1815, drawing particularly on their personal documents and social and cultural practices, to offer a perspective on the wars which is at some distance from broader and more familiar historical narratives.

Spis treści

Series Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on the Authors Introduction: Nations in Arms, People at War: Analysing War Experiences and Perceptions; A.Forrest , K.Hagemann  and J.Rendall PART I: MILITARY EXPERIENCES Regimental Worlds: Interpreting the Experience of British Soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars; J.E.Cookson Assessing the Impact of War Experience: The French Soldiers and Veterans of the Napoleonic Armies; N.Petiteau Glory, Honour and Patriotism: Military Careers in the Duchy of Warsaw, 1806-1815; J.Czubaty The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; D.Hopkin PART II: CIVILIANS AT WAR Caring for the Nation's Families: British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and the State, 1793-1815; P.Y.C.E.Lin War without Battles: Civilian Experience of French Economic Warfare in the Hanseatic Cities, 1806-1812; K.Aaslestad From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo; C.Kennedy 'Unimaginable Horror and Misery': The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 in Civilian Experience and Perception; K.Hagemann PART III: WAR, PATRIOTISM AND PROTEST 'A Very Rebellious Disposition': Dutch Experience and Popular Protest under the Napoleonic Regime, 1806-1813; J.Joor 'A Citizen and not a Soldier': The British Volunteer Movement and the War against Napoleon; K.B.Linch Religion and the Experience of War: A Comparative Approach to Belgium, the Netherlands and the Rhineland; H.Carl Index

O autorze

KATHERINE AASLESTAD Associate Professor, Department of History, West Virginia University, USA HORST CARL Professor of Modern History, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany JOHN COOKSON Adjunct-Professor, School of History, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand JAROSLAW CZUBATY Lecturer in History, the University of Warsaw, Poland ALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History, the University of York, UK KAREN HAGEMANN James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA DAVID HOPKIN Fellow in Modern History, Hertford College, the University of Oxford, UK JOHAN JOOR Honorary Research Fellow, the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands CATRIONA KENNEDY Research Fellow, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the University of York, UK PATRICIA LIN Formerly Lecturer in History, the University of California, Berkeley, USA KEVIN LINCH Teaching Fellow, School of History, the University of Leeds, UK NATALIE PETITEAU Professor of History, the University of Avignon, France JANE RENDALL Honorary Fellow, History Department and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the University of York, UK