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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Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Scott, Rebecca J., and Jean M. Hébrard. Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Shaffer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. A Companion to the U.S. Civil War. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Sheehan‐Dean, Aaron. "Southern Home Front." In A Companion to the U.S. Civil War , edited by Aaron Sheehan‐Dean, 909-926. Vol. 2. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Showalter, Dennis E. "The Prusso-German RMA, 1840–1871." In The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050, edited by Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox, 92-113. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Showalter, Dennis E. The Wars of German Unification. 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Siemann, Wolfram. The German Revolution of 1848-49. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Silber, Nina. Gender and the Sectional Conflict. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Silvey, Anita. I'll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War. New York: Clarion Books, 2008.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Skaine, Rosemarie. Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook In Contemporary world issues; Variation: Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Sked, Alan. Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
Sked, Alan. The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918. London: Longman, 1989.
Sklar, Katherine Kish, and Jame Brewer Stewart. Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
Slater, Sandra, and Fay A. Yarbrough. Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
Small, Hugh. Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Small, Hugh. The Crimean War: Queen Victoria's War with the Russian Tsars. Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2007.
Smith, Denis Mack. Mazzini. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Stargardt, Nicholas. The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics, 1866–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Stauffer, John. "Embattled Manhood and the New England Writers." In Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War, edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, 120-139. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Steplyk, Jonathan M. Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Sternhell, Yael A. "Emancipation." In A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, edited by Aaron Sheehan‐Dean, 965-986. Vol. 2. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Stowe, Steve. Keep the Days : Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Streeby, Shelley. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
Strumingher, Laura S., Philippe Régnier, Raimund Rütten, Ruth Jung, and Gerhard Schneider. "Les Vésuviennes : les femmes-soldats dans la société de 1848." In La caricature entre République et censure : L’imagerie satirique en France de 1830 à 1880 : un discours de résistance ?, 234-248. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1996.
Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
Taithe, Bertrand. Citizenship and Wars: France in Turmoil 1870–1871. London ; New York: Routledge, 2001.
Taithe, Bertrand. Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

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