Военная история / The People's War: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888

Название: The People's War: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888
Автор(ы): Mark Hewitson
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2017
ISBN: 978–0–19–956426–2
Страниц: 586
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 9 MB

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on 'politics' are still poorly understood. This study makes sense of contemporaries' memories and histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns within a much wider context of press reportage of wars elsewhere in Europe and overseas, debates about military service and the reform of Germany's armies, revolution and counter-revolution, and individuals' experiences of violence and death in their everyday lives. For the majority of the populations of the German states, wars during an era of conscription were not merely a matter of history and memory; rather, they concerned subjects' hopes, fears, and expectations of the future.