Absolute war: violence and mass warfare in the German lands, 1792-1820

Absolute War' reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, pla...

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1. Verfasser: Hewitson, Mark ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
Ausgabe:First edition
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Online-Zugang:rezensiert in: Francia-Recensio; 2017/4
rezensiert in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XL (2018), 1, S. 128-134
rezensiert in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), Nr. 3
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Zusammenfassung:Absolute War' reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, plays, and cartoons, this volume refocuses attention on combat and conscription as the central components of new forms of mass warfare. It concentrates, in particular, on the impact of violence, killing, and death on many soldiers' and some civilians' experiences and subsequent memories of conflict. War has often been conceived of as 'an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds', as Clausewitz put it, but the relationship between military conflicts and violent acts remains a problematic one.00
Beschreibung:viii, 297 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780198787457
DOI:10.11588/frrec.2017.4.43167

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