War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

by Alan Forrest (Editor), Michael Rowe (Editor)

Overview

This volume examines the impact of the wars in the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1830, focusing both on the military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization that occurred immediately at their end, and their long-term legacy and memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349580385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/15/2016
Series:	War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York, UK. His research and teaching focuses on modern French and European history. His most recent books are Waterloo (2015); and War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, ed. with Étienne François and Karen Hagemann (2012).

Karen Hagemann is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has published widely on modern German, European and transatlantic history, gender history and the history of military and war. Her most recent monograph is Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory (2015).

Michael Rowe is Senior Lecturer of Modern European History at King's College London, UK. His research focuses on nineteenth century Germany. His publications include From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age (2003); and as editor, Collaboration and Resistance in NapoleonicEurope: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800–1815 (2003).

Table of Contents

PART I: RETHINKING WAR AND POSTWAR: THE LEGACY OF CONFLICT IN THE ERA OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTIONS
1. Introduction: War, Demobilization and Memory in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions; Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Michael Rowe
2. The Birth of Militarism in the Age of Democratic Revolutions; David A. Bell
PART II: PEACE MAKING, OCCUPATION AND MILITARY DEMOBILIZATION
3. Making Peace: The Allied Occupation of France, 1815–1818; Christine Haynes
4. The Experience of Demobilization: War Veterans in the Central European Armies and Societies after 1815; Leighton S. James
5. War, Economy and Utopianism: Russia after the Napoleonic Era; Janet M. Hartley
6. Arms for Revolutions: Military Demobilization after the Napoleonic Wars and Latin American Independence; Rafe Blaufarb
PART III: THE AFTERMATH OF WAR IN POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE
7. North Carolina and the New Nation: Reconstruction and Reconciliation Efforts in the 1780s; John R. Maass
8. The Issue of Citizenship: Jews, Germans and the Contested Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars; Michael Rowe
9. The Costs of War: The Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Italian Postwar Politics; John A. Davis
10. The Challenges of Peace: The High Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Britain, 1815–1831; John Bew
11. The Gender Order of Postwar Politics: Comparing Spanish South America and Spain, 1810s–1850s; Catherine Davies
PART IV: RESTORING POSTWAR ECONOMIES AND REORDERING SOCIETIES
12. Remembering and Restoring the Economic Ancien Régime: France and its Colonies, 1815–1830; David Todd
13. Postwar Cities: The Cost of the Wars of 1813–1815 on Society in Hamburg and Leipzig; Katherine B. Aaslestad
14. Rewarding Loyalty After the Wars of Independence in Spanish America: Displaced Bureaucrats in Cuba; Sarah C. Chambers
15. Enterprising Women and War Profiteers: Race, Gender and Power in the Revolutionary Caribbean; Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus
PART V: POSTWAR CULTURES AND CONTESTED WAR MEMORIES
16. Seductive Sedition: New Hampshire Loyalists' Experiences and Memories of the American Revolutionary Wars; Gregory T. Knouff
17. Moscow after Napoleon: Reconciliation, Rebuilding, and Contested Memories; Alexander M. Martin
18. Creating Cultural Difference: The Military, Political and Cultural Legacy of the Anglo-American War of 1812–1815; Andrew Lambert
19. Creating National Heroes: Simón Bolívar and the Memories of the Spanish American Wars of Independence; Matthew Brown
20. Celebration, Contestation and Commemoration: The Battle of Leipzig in German Memories of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars; Karen Hagemann
21. Contrasting Memories: Remembering Waterloo in France and Britain; Alan Forrest
22. Atlantic Revolutions, Imperial Wars, Post-Napoleonic Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies; Lloyd Kramer
Bibliography: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions; Mark Edward Hay

Editorial Reviews

This impressive and stimulating collection of papers highlights why war was a crucible of change in global politics at the dawn of the nineteenth century, as well as the tenacity of the community structures it failed to shatter.” (Tom Stammers, French History, Vol. 33 (1), March, 2019)

“This volume is a thought-provoking collection of essays borne out of a 2013 international conference. … as historical study continues to turn increasingly to encompass a wider view outside the national narrative, this edited collection can claim to have set the course for new and exciting future studies in what is a popular and ever expanding area of research.” (Mario Draper, European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 (1), 2017)

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