Absolute war : violence and mass warfare in the German lands, 1792-1820 /
Absolute War' reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, pla...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Absolute War' reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, plays and cartoons, this volume refocuses attention on combat and conscription as the central components of new forms of mass warfare. It concentrates, in particular, on the impact of violence, killing and death on many soldiers' and some civilians' experiences and subsequent memories of conflict. War has often been conceived of as 'an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds,' as Clausewitz put it, but the relationship between military conflicts and violent acts remains a problematic one. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198787457 0198787456 |