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Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815
Contributor(s): Charters, Erica (Editor), Rosenhaft, Eve (Editor), Smith, Hannah (Editor)
ISBN: 1846317118     ISBN-13: 9781846317118
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE:   $148.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - General
- History | Western Europe - General
Dewey: 940.22
Series: Liverpool University Press - Eighteenth Century Worlds
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
 
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Publisher Description:
Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war
with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and instead considers the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years. The contributors examine prisoners of war, the cultures of plunder, the tensions of billeting, and war-time atrocities throughout England,
France, Spain, and the German territories. They also explore the legal practices surrounding the conduct and aftermath of war; representations of civilians, soldiers, and militias; and the philosophical underpinnings of warfare. They probe what it meant to be a civilian in territories beset by
invasion and civil war or in times when 'peace' at home was accompanied by almost continuous military engagement abroad. Their accounts show us civilians not only as anguished sufferers, but also directly involved with war: fighting back with shocking violence, profiting from war-time needs, and
negotiating for material and social redress. And they show us individuals and societies coming to terms with the moral and political challenges posed by the business of drawing lines between 'civilians' and 'soldiers'.

With contributors drawn from the fields of political and legal theory, literature and the visual arts, and military, political, social, and cultural history, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of warfare and the evolution of the idea of the civilian.