War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Author : Rafe Blaufarb
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830
Author : R. Bessel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0230282695
Book Description
The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the impact of revolutionary wars and how people's identities were shaped by their experiences.
Gender, War and Politics
Author : K. Hagemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230283047
Book Description
This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1830. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion.
Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille
Author : Julia Osman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1137486244
Book Description
Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789 prompted and helped shape the French Revolution.
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
Author : M. Broers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1137271396
Book Description
Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Author : C. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1137316535
Book Description
The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.
Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians
Author : A. Forrest
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0230583296
Book Description
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.
Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System
Author : K. Aaslestad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1137345578
Book Description
Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers and their strategies to adapt to trade restrictions.
Republics at War, 1776-1840
Author : P. Serna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1137328827
Book Description
This collection probes the troubling connections between war and republic during Revolutionary era, 1776-1840. It presents the work of an international team of scholars, some of them in English for the first time.
Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark and Norway, 1807-1815
Author : R. Glenthøj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1137313897
Book Description
This book explores the impact of the Napoleonic wars on Danish-Norwegian society and accounts for war experiences and the transformation of identities among the popular classes and educated élites alike.
