Karen Hagermann

Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 - War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Karen Hagermann

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: ALAN FORREST is Professor of Modern History at the University of York, UK. He has published widely on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic history. Recent books include "Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire" (2002) and "Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution "(2004). KAREN HAGEMANN is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on modern German and European history and gender history, in particular the history of labor, welfare, and education, the women's movements, and the nation, military, and war. JANE RENDALL taught for many years at the University of York, UK, in the History Department, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Centre for Women's Studies, and is now an Honorary Fellow there. She has published widely in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's and gender history, with particular reference to Scotland. Table of Contents: Series ForewordAcknowledgements Notes on the AuthorsIntroduction: Nations in Arms, People at War: Analysing War Experiences and Perceptions; "A. Forrest," "K. Hagemann" and "J. Rendall"PART I: MILITARY EXPERIENCESRegimental Worlds: Interpreting the Experience of British Soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars; "J. E. Cookson"Assessing the Impact of War Experience: The French Soldiers and Veterans of the Napoleonic Armies; "N. Petiteau"Glory, Honour and Patriotism: Military Careers in the Duchy of Warsaw, 1806-1815; "J. Czubaty"The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; "D. Hopkin"PART II: CIVILIANS AT WAR Caring for the Nation's Families: British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and the State, 1793-1815; "P. Y. C. E. Lin"War without Battles: Civilian Experience of French Economic Warfare in the Hanseatic Cities, 1806-1812; "K. Aaslestad"From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo; "C. Kennedy"'Unimaginable Horror and Misery': The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 in Civilian Experience and Perception; "K. Hagemann"PART III: WAR, PATRIOTISM AND PROTEST'A Very Rebellious Disposition': Dutch Experience and Popular Protest under the Napoleonic Regime, 1806-1813; "J. Joor"'A Citizen and not a Soldier': The British Volunteer Movement and the War against Napoleon; "K. B. Linch"Religion and the Experience of War: A Comparative Approach to Belgium, the Netherlands and the Rhineland; "H. Carl"IndexPublisher Marketing: This volume explores the impact of the Revolutionary and Napolenic Wars, the first fought by mass armies, on the ambitions and identities of European men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.

Contributor Bio:  Forrest, Alan Alan Forrest is Professor of Modern History at the University of York. His previous books include Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (2004), Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002) and The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789 1799 (1996).