Karen Hagemann

Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history and the construction of memory in Prussia's and Germany's anti-Napoleonic wars of 1806-15.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 491
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521190138
• ISBN-10: 0521190134
• Artikelnr.: 41608326

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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, History and War Memories: 12. Politics, market and media: the development of a culture-consuming national public
13. Inventing history: nostalgia, historiography and memory
14. Remembering the past: the Napoleonic wars in autobiographies and war memoirs
Conclusion
Part V. Novels, Memory and Politics: 15. Re-creating the past: the time of the anti-Napoleonic wars in novels
16. Hopefulness and disappointment: novels of the Restoration era and the Vormärz
17. Critique, desire and glory: novels of the Nachmärz and the German Empire
Conclusion
Epilogue: Historicizing war and memory, 2013-1813-1913.