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Civilians and war in Europe, 1618-1815 / edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Civilians and war in Europe, 1618-1815 / edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith
Autre(s) auteur(s)
Diffusion / Distribution
  • Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
Date de copyright
  • C 2012
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XV-301 p.) : Ill. en coul et en noir et blanc, couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Eighteenth-century worlds
ISBN
  • 978-1-8463-1711-8
  • 1-8463-1711-8
  • 978-1-78138-012-3
EAN
  • 9781781380123 br.
  • 9781846317118
Appartient à la collection
  • Eighteenth-century worlds
Note(s)
  • La plupart des chapitres de ce volume sont issus de la conférence "Civilians and war in Europe, c.1640-1815" qui s'est tenue à l'Université de Liverpool en juin 2009
Note sur l'édition et l'histoire bibliographique
  • cop. 2014 pour l'édition brochée
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 262-290. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and instead considers the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years. The contributors examine prisoners of war, the cultures of plunder, the tensions of billeting, and war-time atrocities throughout England, France, Spain, and the German territories. They also explore the legal practices surrounding the conduct and aftermath of war; representations of civilians, soldiers, and militias; and the philosophical underpinnings of warfare. They probe what it meant to be a civilian in territories beset by invasion and civil war or in times when ‘peace’ at home was accompanied by almost continuous military engagement abroad. Their accounts show us civilians not only as anguished sufferers, but also directly involved with war: fighting back with shocking violence, profiting from war-time needs, and negotiating for material and social redress. And they show us individuals and societies coming to terms with the moral and political challenges posed by the business of drawing lines between ‘civilians’ and ‘soldiers’. This contributors drawn from the fields of political and legal theory, literature and the visual arts, and military, politial, social, and cultural history, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of warfare and the evolution of the idea of the civilian. 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.
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