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Karen Hagemann's Handbook chapter "Introduction: Gender and the History of War—The Development of the Reserach" in the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600.

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Bell, David A. "The Birth of Militarism in an Age of Democratic Revolutions." In War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions, edited by Allan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Michael Rowe, 30-47. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Black, Jeremy. War and Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Bufacchi, Vittorio. "Two Concepts of Violence." Political Studies Review 3, no. 2 (2005): 193-204.
Burdette, Amy M., Victor Wang, Glen H. Elder, Terrence D. Hill, and Janel Benson. "Serving God and Country? Religious Involvement and Military Service among Young Adult Men." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48, no. 4 (2009): 794-804.
Butler, Judith, and Joan W. Scott. Feminists Theorize the Political. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Chickering, Roger, Dennis Showalter, and Hans van de Ven. The Cambridge History of War: War and the Modern World. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chickering, Roger. "War, Society, and Culture, 1850-1914: The Rise of Militarism." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis E. Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 119-141. Vol. 4: War and the Modern World. Cambridge History of War 4: War and the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chinkin, Christine, and Mary Kaldor. "Gender and New Wars." Journal of International Affairs 67, no. 1 (2013): 167-187.
Cockburn, Cynthia. "The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace." In Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones, edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman, 24-44. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Cohn, Carol. "Women and Wars: Towards a Conceptual Framework." In Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, edited by Carol Cohn, 1-35. Newark, NJ: Wiley, 2013.
Connell, Raewyn W. Masculinities. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Connell, Raewyn W., and James W. Messerschmidt. "Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept." Gender and Society 19, no. 6 (2005): 829-859.
Conway, Jill K., Susan Carolyn Bourque, and Joan Wallach Scott. Learning About Women: Gender, Politics and Power. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
Conze, Werner, Michael Geyer, and Reinhard Stumpf. "Militarismus." In Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland, edited by Otto Brunner, Werner Conze and Reinhart Koselleck, 1-48. Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Klett, 1978.
Cooke, Miriam, and Angela Woollacott. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Donaldson, Mike. "What Is Hegemonic Masculinity?" Theory and Society 22, no. 5 (1993): 643-657.
Geyer, Michael. "The Militarization of Europe, 1914-1945." In The Militarization of the Western World, edited by John R. Gillis, 65-102. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Geyer, Michael. "Militarism and Capitalism in the 20th Century." In Arms Races: Technological and Political Dynamics, edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch and Olav Njølstad, 247-275. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute, 1990.
Giles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman. Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Hagemann, Karen. "Military, War, and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History." In Gendering Modern German History: Themes, Debates, Revisions, edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert, 63-85. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Hoffman, Philip T. Why Did Europe Conquer the World?. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Joeden-Forgey, Elisa von. "Gender and Genocide." In The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, 61-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Kaldor, Mary. "In Defence of New Wars." Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 2, no. 1 (2013).
Kalyvas, Stathis N. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lindley-French, Julian, and Yves Boyer. The Oxford Handbook of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Metz, Steven, and Phillip Cuccia. Defining War for the 21st Century. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011.
Meyerowitz, Joanne, Heidi Tinsman, Maria Bucur, Dylan Elliot, Gail Hershatter, Wang Zheng, and Joan W. Scott. "AHR Forum: Revisiting 'Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis'." The American Historical Review 113, no. 5 (2008): 1344-1430.
Morillo, Stephen, and Michael F. Pavkovic. What is Military History?. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Moses, A. Dirk. "Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide." In The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, 19-41. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Nye, Robert A. "Western Masculinities in War and Peace." The American Historical Review 112, no. 2 (2007): 417-438.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge History of Warfare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Richards, Paul. "New War: An Ethnographic Approach." In No Peace, No War: The Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, edited by Paul Richards, 1-21. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth. Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2012.
Rothbart, Daniel, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui. "The Place and Plights of Civilians in Modern War." In Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence, edited by Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, 1-19. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012.
Scheipers, Sibylle. Prisoners in War. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Scott, Joan W. "History and Difference." In Learning about Women: Gender, Politics and Power, edited by Jill K. Conway, Susan C. Bourque and Joan W. Scott, 93-118. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Feminism and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Scott, Joan W. "Unanswered Questions." The American Historical Review 113, no. 5 (2008): 1422-1429.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Sinha, Mrinalini. "Unraveling Masculinity and Rethinking Citizenship: A Comment." In Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and Anna Clark, 261-274. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Strachan, Hew, and Sibylle Scheipers. The Changing Character of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Tosh, John. "Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 41-58. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Tosh, John. "What Should Historians Do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Britain." In Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, edited by John Tosh, 179-202. Harlow: Routledge, 2004.
Trauschweizer, Ingo. "On Militarism." Journal of Military History 76, no. 2 (2012): 507-543.
Wilson, Peter H. "Defining Military Culture." Journal of Military History 72, no. 1 (2008): 11-41.
Žarkov, Dubravka. "Towards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender, and War." In Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies, edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber, 214-233. London: Sage, 2006.