Civilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years, examining topics central to civilian and war dynamics, including incarceration, cultures of plunder, billeting, and wartime atrocities, in addition to the larger legal practices and philosophical underpinnings of warfare and its aftermath. Showcasing the complex ways civilians were involved in war—not just as anguished sufferers, but as individuals who fought back, who profited, and who negotiated for their own needs—Civilians and War in Europe probes what it meant to be a civilian in countries deeply involved in conflict.
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1. Introduction
Erica Charters, Even Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith
Part I: Suffering, Reconciliation and Values in the Seventeenth Century
2. Was the Thirty Years War a ‘Total War’?
Peter H. Wilson
3. Grotius and the Civilian
Colm McKeogh
4. War, Property and the Bonds of Society: England’s “Unnatural” Civil Wars
Barbara Donagan
5. Transitional Justice Theory and Reconciling Civil War Division in English Society, circa 1660–1670
Melanie Harrington
Part II: The State, Soldiers and Civilians
6. The Administration of War and French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1756–1763
Erica Charters
7. Civilians, the French Army and Military Justice during the Reign of Louis XIV, circa 1640–1715
Markus Meumann
8. Restricted Violence? Military Occupation during the Eighteenth Century
Horst Carl
9. British Soldiers at Home: The Civilian Experience in Wartime, 1740–1783
Stephen Conway
Part III: Who is a Civilian? Who is a Soldier?
10. Conflicted Identities: Soldiers, Civilians and the Representation of War
Philip Shaw
11. ‘Turning Out for Twenty-Days Amusement’: The Militia in Georgian Satirical Prints
Matthew McCormack
12. Insurgents and Counter-Insurgents between Military and Civil Society from the 1790s to 1815
Alan Forest
Part IV: Contradictions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
13. The Limits of Conflict in Napoleonic Europe—And Their Transgression
David A. Bell
14. Plunder on the Peninsula: British Soldiers and Local Civilians during the Peninsular War, 1808–1813
Gavin Daly
15. Invasion and Occupation: Civilian-Military Relations in Central Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Leighton S. James
16. Imprisoned Reading: French Prisoners of War at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811–1814
Mark Towsey
Bibliography
Index
History: European History
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