Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon

History, Culture, and Memory
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-15230-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 497 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813–15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books and articles, much of the focus has been on the military campaigns and alliances. Karen Hagemann argues that we cannot achieve a comprehensive understanding of these wars and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. She thus explores the highly contested discourses and symbolic practices by which individuals and groups interpreted these wars and made political claims, beginning with the period itself and ending with the centenary in 1913.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagemann, Karen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Selwyn, Pamela

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Hagemann, Karen
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).