The People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888

TitleThe People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsHewitson, Mark
Number of Pages512
PublisherOxford University Press
CityNew York
Abstract

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. This is the second volume of Mark Hewitson's study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the complex relationship between military conflicts and the violent acts of individual soldiers.In particular, it considers the contradictory impact of 'pacification' in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during war-time. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the 'wars of unification', leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict. 

URLhttps://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199564262.001.0001
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