Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory
Title | Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Hagemann, Karen |
Number of Pages | 483 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
City | Cambridge; New York |
Abstract | In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813-1815). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books and articles, much of the focus has been on the military campaigns and alliances. This monograph argues that we cannot achieve a comprehensive understanding of these wars and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continues to shape later recollections of them. Hagemann thus explores the highly contested discourses and symbolic practices by which individuals and groups interpreted these wars and made political claims, beginning with the period itself and ending with the centenary in 1913. |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030861 |
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- 1. War and Gender: From The Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence—An Overview
- 2. Wars, States and Gender In Early Modern Warfare, 1600s–1780s
- 6. Society, Mass Warfare and Gender in Europe during and after the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- 7. History and Memory of Army Women and Female Soldiers, 1770s–1870s
- 8. Citizenship, Mass Mobilization and Masculinity in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1770s–1870s
- 10. War Mobilization, Gender and Military Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Western Societies
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