Introduction: Nations in Arms—People at War
Title | Introduction: Nations in Arms—People at War |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Forrest, Alan, Karen Hagemann, and Jane Rendall |
Editor | Forrest, Alan, Karen Hagemann, and Jane Rendall |
Book Title | Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790–1820 |
Pagination | 1-20 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
City | Basingstoke, UK |
Abstract | This introduction to the edited volume Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 with essays that discuss the formative experience of those wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians, summarizes the state of research and the conceptualization of the period, which has been described as that of the first "total war." Affecting millions of people’s lives, this war brought a whole continent into contact with armies and bloodshed, and subsumed the economies of most European states to the needs and exigencies of the military. The after-effects of the French Revolution, which permanently influenced European political culture far beyond France’s borders, have, of course, been widely analysed. But the extent to which the constant state of war that existed between 1792 and 1815 shaped the everyday experience of soldiers and civilians has been much less studied. Yet these wars affected nearly every European country as well as large areas of Asia, Africa and North America. |
URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230583290_1 |
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