Joseph (Hrsg.) Clarke

Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century

Making War, Mapping Europe

Buch

This book explores European soldiers' encounters with their continent's exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the 'Levant' they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be 'civilized.' Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe's own 'civilization' (Rome, Jerusalem) or decaying reminders of ancient grandeur. The resulting encounters proved seminal in forging a military version of the 'civilizing mission' that shaped Europe's image of itself as well as its relations with its own periphery during… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Horne, John (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-78228-7
EAN: 9783319782287
Produktnummer: 27184022
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 370 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.0 cm 637 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 637
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Joseph Clarke is Lecturer in European History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His publications include Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799 (2007) and articles and essays on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. John Horne is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of twentieth century France and the comparative and transnational history of the First World War.ytjyjyj