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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Geyer, Martin, and Johannes Paulmann. The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War In The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. "Women." In A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, 779-794. Vol. 2. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Giesberg, Judith Ann, and Randall M. Miller. Women and American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018.
Giesberg, Judith, and Randall M. Miller. Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2018.
Gillespie, Richard, and Frédéric Volpi. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. London: Routledge, 2018.
Glymph, Thavolia. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Greenberg, Amy S. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Griffin, Martin. Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Guiomar, Jean-Yves. L'invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Félin, 2004.
Gullickson, Gay L. Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Hacker, Barton C. "Reformers, Nurses, and Ladies in Uniform: The Changing Status of Military Women (c. 1815-c. 1914)." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 137-187. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert. Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography. New York: Berghahn, 2008.
Hagemann, Karen. "German Heroes: The Cult of the Death for the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century Germany." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 116-134. Manchester: Manchester University 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.
Hagemann, Karen. "National Symbols and the Politics of Memory: The Prussian Iron Cross of 1813: Its Cultural Context and Its Aftermath." In War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, edited by Alan I. Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann, 215-244. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Hager, Christopher. I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Hahn, Steven. The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hall, Richard H. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Hämmerle, Christa. "Back to the Monarchy’s Glorifed Past? Military Discourses on Male Citizenship and Universal Conscription in the Austrian Empire, 1868–1914." In Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and Anna Clark, 151-168. Basingstoke, UK ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Hämmerle, Christa. "Die k. (u.) k. Armee als 'Schule der Volkes'? Zur Geschichte der Allgemeinen Wehrpflicht in der multinationalen Habsburgermonarchie (1866 bis 1914/18)." In Der Bürger als Soldat: Die Militarisierung europäischer Gesellschaften im langen 19. Jahrhundert: Ein internationaler Vergleich, edited by Christian Jansen, 175-213. Essen: Klartext, 2004.
Harper, Judith E. Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, 2004.
Harris, M. Keith. Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
Harsin, Jill. Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Hattaway, Herman M. "The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development." In On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871, edited by Stig Förster and Jorg Nagler, 173-198. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Hauch, Gabriella. Frauen bewegen Politik: Österreich 1848-1938. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2009.
Hauch, Gabrilla. "Women’s Space in the Men’s Revolution of 1848." In Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform, edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Jonathan Sperber and Dieter Langewiesche, 639-682. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Helmert, Heinz, and Hans Jürgen Usczech. Bewaffnete Volkskämpfe in Europa 1848/49. Berlin (East): Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1973.
Hewitson, Mark. The People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

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