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OverviewThe Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. Forrest , K. Hagemann , J. RendallPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.495kg ISBN: 9780230545342ISBN 10: 0230545343 Pages: 251 Publication Date: 27 November 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on the Authors Introduction: Nations in Arms, People at War: Analysing War Experiences and Perceptions; A.Forrest , K.Hagemann and J.Rendall PART I: MILITARY EXPERIENCES Regimental Worlds: Interpreting the Experience of British Soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars; J.E.Cookson Assessing the Impact of War Experience: The French Soldiers and Veterans of the Napoleonic Armies; N.Petiteau Glory, Honour and Patriotism: Military Careers in the Duchy of Warsaw, 1806-1815; J.Czubaty The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; D.Hopkin PART II: CIVILIANS AT WAR Caring for the Nation's Families: British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and the State, 1793-1815; P.Y.C.E.Lin War without Battles: Civilian Experience of French Economic Warfare in the Hanseatic Cities, 1806-1812; K.Aaslestad From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo; C.Kennedy 'Unimaginable Horror and Misery': The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 in Civilian Experience and Perception; K.Hagemann PART III: WAR, PATRIOTISM AND PROTEST 'A Very Rebellious Disposition': Dutch Experience and Popular Protest under the Napoleonic Regime, 1806-1813; J.Joor 'A Citizen and not a Soldier': The British Volunteer Movement and the War against Napoleon; K.B.Linch Religion and the Experience of War: A Comparative Approach to Belgium, the Netherlands and the Rhineland; H.Carl IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKATHERINE AASLESTAD Associate Professor, Department of History, West Virginia University, USA HORST CARL Professor of Modern History, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany JOHN COOKSON Adjunct-Professor, School of History, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand JAROSLAW CZUBATY Lecturer in History, the University of Warsaw, Poland ALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History, the University of York, UK KAREN HAGEMANN James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA DAVID HOPKIN Fellow in Modern History, Hertford College, the University of Oxford, UK JOHAN JOOR Honorary Research Fellow, the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands CATRIONA KENNEDY Research Fellow, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the University of York, UK PATRICIA LIN Formerly Lecturer in History, the University of California, Berkeley, USA KEVIN LINCH Teaching Fellow, School of History, the University of Leeds, UK NATALIE PETITEAU Professor of History, the University of Avignon, France JANE RENDALL Honorary Fellow, History Department and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the University of York, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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