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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Hilde, Libra R. Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Hine, Darlene Clark. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Hippler, Thomas. "The French Army, 1789-1914: Volunteers, Pressed Soldiers, and Conscripts." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 419-446. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Hoffman, Peter J., and Thomas G. Weiss. Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond. New Millennium Books In International StudiesNew millennium books in international studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.
Hooper, Candice Shy. Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War––for Better and for Worse In Journal of Military History. Ashland, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.
Horne, Gerald. The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Howard, Michael. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Huddie, Paul. The Crimean War and Irish Society. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Hughes, Steven C. Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Hyde, Anne F. Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Izecksohn, Vitor. Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Jabir, Johari. Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army". Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Jackson, Maurice, and Jacqueline Bacon. African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Janney, Caroline E. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Johnson, Timothy D. For Duty and Honor: Tennessee's Mexican War Experience. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2018.
Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Jung, Moon-Ho. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Kanter, Deborah E. Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
Keegan, John. The American Civil War: A Military History. London: Hutchinson, 2009.
Keep, John L. H. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Knox, MacGregor, and Williamson Murray. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Krauthamer, Barbara. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Kreiser, Jr., Lawrence A., and Randal Allred. The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Krüger, Christine. "Sind wir denn nicht Brüder?": Deutsche Juden im nationalen Krieg 1870-71. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2006.
Krüger, Christine, and Sonja Levsen. War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Kühne, Thomas. Männergeschichte — Geschlechtergeschichte: Männlichkeit im Wandel der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1996.
Kutz, Martin. Deutsche Soldaten: Eine Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
Lambrecht, Lars. Osteuropa in den Revolutionen von 1848. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2006.

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