Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820

by Hagemann, Karen; Forrest, Alan; Rendall, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780230545342
• ISBN10: 0230545343
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.

Author Biography

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

Foreword to the Series	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction: Nations in Arms-People at War	p. 1
Military Experiences
Regimental Worlds: Interpreting the Experience of British Soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars	p. 23
Survivors of War: French Soldiers and Veterans of the Napoleonic Armies	p. 43
Glory, Honour and Patriotism: Military Careers in the Duchy of Warsaw, 1806-1815	p. 59
The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars	p. 77
Civilians at War
Caring for the Nation's Families: British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and the State, 1793-1815	p. 99
War without Battles: Civilian Experiences of Economic Warfare during the Napoleonic Era in Hamburg	p. 118
From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo	p. 137
æUnimaginable Horror and Misery': The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 in Civilian Experience and Perception	p. 157
War, Patriotism and Protest
æA Very Rebellious Disposition': Dutch Experience and Popular Protest under the Napoleonic Regime (1806 -1813)	p. 181
æA Citizen and Not a Soldier': The British Volunteer Movement and the War against Napoleon	p. 205
Religion and the Experience of War: A Comparative Approach to Belgium, the Netherlands and the Rhineland	p. 222
Index	p. 243
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