Civilians and war in Europe, 1618-1815 / / edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.906950940903
• Soggetto topico: Civilians in war - Europe - History - 17th century; Civilians in war - Europe - History - 18th century; War and society - Europe - History - 17th century; War and society - Europe - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: Europe History, Military 17th century Congresses; Europe History, Military 18th century Congresses; Europe Social conditions 17th century Congresses; Europe Social conditions 18th century Congresses
• Persona (resp. second.): ChartersErica; RosenhaftEve <1951->; SmithHannah <1976->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Was the Thirty Years War a "total war"? / Peter H. Wilson -- Grotius and the civilian / Colm McKeough -- War, property and the bonds of society : England's 'unnatural' civil wars / Barbara Donagan -- Transitional justice theory and reconciling civil war division in English society, circa 1660-1670 / Melanie Harrington -- The administration of war and French prisoners of war in Britain, 1756-1763 / Erica Charters -- Civilians, the French Army and military justice during the reign of Louis XIV, circa 1640-1715 / Markus Meumann -- Restricted violence? Military occupation during the eighteenth century / Horst Carl -- British soldiers at home : the civilian experience in wartime, 1740-1783 / Stephen Conway -- Conflicted identities : soldiers, civilians and the representation of war / Philip Shaw -- 'Turning out for twenty-days amusement' : the militia in Georgian satirical prints / Matthew McCormack -- Insurgents and counter-insurgents between military and civil society from the 1790s to 1815 / Alan Forrest -- The limits of conflict in Napoleonic Europe and their transgression / David A. Bell -- Plunder on the Peninsula : British soldiers and local civilians during the Peninsular War, 1808-1813 / Gavin Daly -- Invasion and occupation : civilian-military relations in central Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Leighton S. James -- Imprisoned reading : French prisoners of war at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811-1814 / Mark Towsey.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Civilians and war in Europe, 1618-1815
• ISBN: 1-78138-634-X; 1-78138-893-8; 1-84631-769-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825478003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Eighteenth-century worlds.