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This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between civilians and war in Europe in the period 1618 to 1815, challenging familiar narratives of the rise of modern war and the nature of early modern warfare. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between civilians and war in Europe in the period 1618 to 1815! challenging familiar narratives of the rise of modern war and the nature of early modern warfare. List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction - Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith Part I: Suffering, Reconciliation and Values in the Seventeenth Century 2. Was the Thirty Years War a 'Total War'? - Peter H. Wilson 3. Grotius and the Civilian - Colm McKeogh 4. War, Property and the Bonds of Society: England's 'Unnatural' Civil Wars - Barbara Donagan 5. Transitional Justice Theory and Reconciling Civil War Division in English Society, circa 1660-1670 - Melanie Harrington Part II: The State, Soldiers and Cilivians 6. The Administration of War and French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1756-1763 - Erica Charters 7. Civilians, the French Army and Military Justice during the Reign of Louis XIV, circa 1640-1715 - Markus Meumann 8. Restricted Violence? Military Occupation during the Eighteenth Century - Horst Carl 9. British Soldiers at Home: The Civilian Experience in Wartime, 1740-1783 - Stephen Conway Part III: Who is a Civilian? Who is a Soldier? 10. Conflicted Identities: Soldiers, Civilians and the Representation of War - Philip Shaw 11. 'Turning Out for Twenty-Days Amusement': The Militia in Georgian Satirical Prints - Matthew McCormack 12. Insurgents and Counter-Insurgents between Military and Civil Society from the 1790s to 1815 - Alan Forrest Part IV: Contradictions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 13. The Limits of Conflict in Napoleonic Europe - and Their Transgression - David A. Bell 14. Pluder on the Peninsula: British Soliders and Local Civilians during the Peninsular War, 1808-1813 - Gavin Galy 15. Invasion and Occupation: Civilian-Military Relations in Central Europe during Revolutionary and Napoleonic War - Leighton S. James 16. Imprisoned Reading: French Prisoners of War at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811-1814 - Mark Towsey Bibliography Index ...
A propos de l'auteur
Erica Charters is a University Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.
Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre, University of Liverpool.
Hannah Smith is Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in History, St. Hildas College, University of Oxford.
