Revisiting Prussia''s Wars Against Napoleon - History, Culture, and Memory

Zusatztext Advance praise: "War is the mere continuation of politics ?'! Clausewitz asserted! distilling the experience of the Napoleonic Wars. He passed over the fact that in Prussia! as in all of the German lands! politics was a battlefield of contending interests! norms! and values as well as of competing political projects. This latter conflict over competing war cultures and war is the subject of the present book. The divisiveness of war cultures arose amid a novel configuration of war! in which the full force of public opinion underwrote the efforts to mobilize a people only to be confronted with fatal choices. Was the war against Napoleon to be a 'War of Liberty' or a 'War of Liberation'? Karen Hagemann concludes that it was waged by contemporaries for the liberty of the German nation! but won by historians and novelists for Prussia's liberation. Of course! it was a mere paper victory! but the price was paid in blood.' Michael Geyer! University of Chicago Informationen zum Autor Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published widely in Modern German and European history, gender history and the history of military and war (19th-20th centuries) combining approaches from social, political and cultural history. Her books include: Frauenalltag und Männerpolitik. Alltagsleben und gesellschaftliches Handeln von Arbeiterfrauen in der Weimarer Republik (1990); 'Mannlicher Mut und Teutsche Ehre'. Nation, Militär und Geschlecht zur Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege Preußens (2002); Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany (edited with S. Schüler-Springorum, 2002); Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (edited with S. Dudink and J. Tosh, 2004); Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography (edited with J. Quataert, 2007); Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture (edited with S. Dudink and A. Clark, 2007); Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830 (edited with G. Mettele and J. Rendall, 2010); and War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture (edited with A. Forrest and E. François, 2012). Klappentext This book argues that we cannot understand the Wars of Liberation - the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815 - and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. Zusammenfassung This book argues that we cannot understand the Wars of Liberation - the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815 - and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics! culture! and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude: war, culture and memory; Introduction: revisiting the wars against Napoleon; Part I. A History of Defeat, Crisis and Victory: 1. The defeat of 1806 and its aftermath; 2. Reform and revenge: political responses; 3. Liberation and restoration: the wars of 1813-15 and their legacy; Conclusion; Part II. Discourses on the Nation, War and Gender: 4. Mobilizing public opinion: propaganda, media and war; 5. Defining the nation: belonging and exclusion; 6. Debating war: the military, warfare and masculinity; 7. Regulating participation: patriotism, citizenship and gender; Conclusion; Part III. Collective Practices of De/mobilization and Commemoration: 8. Military service: mobilizing militiamen and volunteers; 9. War charity: patriotic women's associations; 10. De/mobilizing society: patriotic-national celebrations and rituals; 11. Honoring and commemorating war heroes: the cult of death for the fatherland; Conclusion; Part IV. Literary Market, His...

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• Authors: Karen Hagemann, Karen (University of North Carolina Hagemann
• Assisted by: Pamela Selwyn (Translation), Pamela E. Selwyn (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2015
• EAN: 9780521152303
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15230-3
• No. of pages: 497
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918