Secondary Literature on National Wars in the 19th Century

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added selected secondary literature on regions and themes that the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars included for this period are:

  • Mexican American War (1846–48)
  • European Civil Wars (1848–49)
  • Wars of Italian Independence (1848–49, 1859, 1866)
  • Crimean War (1853–56)
  • American Civil War (1861–65)
  • German Wars of Unifications (1864, 1866, 1870–71)
  • Russo-Japanese War (1904–05)

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Cullen, Jim. ""I's a Man Now": Gender and African-American Men." In Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, 76-91. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Davy, Jennifer, Karen Hagemann, and Ute Kätzel. Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
Deák, István. The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
DeLay, Brian. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the US–Mexican War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Delmas, Jean. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1715 à 1871, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 2. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Diouf, Sylviane A. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Dippel, John Van Houten. War and Sex: A Brief History of Men's Urge for Battle. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2010.
Dixon, Jeffrey S., and Meredith Reid Sarkees. A Guide to Intra-State Wars: An Examination of Civil Wars, 1816-2014. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press/SAGE Reference, 2016.
Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corp., 2000.
Dowd, Jerome. The Negro in American Life. New York: The Century Co., 1926.
Dowe, Dieter, Heinz Gerhard Haupt, and Dieter Langewiesche. Europa 1848: Revolution und Reform. Bonn: J.H.W Dietz Nachf, 1998.
Dowe, Dieter, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Dieter Langewiesche, and Jonathan Sperber. Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.
Downs, Gregory P., and Kate Masur. The World the Civil War Made. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Doyle, Don Harrison. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2015.
Drescher, Seymour, and Frank S. McGlynn. The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1870 à nos jours. Vol. 2. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Dudink, Stefan, Karen Hagemann, and John Tosh. Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Dudink, Stefan, and Karen Hagemann. "Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 3-21. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Dunnage, Jonathan. Twentieth-Century Italy: A Social History. London: Longman, 2002.
Durrant, Lynda. My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier. New York: Clarion Books, 2006.
Edgerton, Robert B. Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
Edmondson, Linda Harriet. Gender in Russian History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
Edwards, Laura F. Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Edy, Carolyn M. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S Military, and the Press, 1846-1947. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
Eichner, Carolyn J. Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Eisenhower, John D. So Far from God: The US War With Mexico, 1846–1848. New York: Random House, 1989.
Eley, Geoff. Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Enloe, Cynthia. The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Erwin, James W. The Homefront in Civil War Missouri. Charleston: The History Press, 2014.
Fahs, Alice, and Joan Waugh. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. ""Ours as Well as That of Men": Women and Gender in the Civil War." In Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, edited by James M. McPherson and William Cooper, Jr., 228-240. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

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