Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the conflict left its mark on virtually every aspect of society. They reflect on the experience of the soldiers who fought in them, examining such matters as military morale, ideas of honour and masculinity, the treatment of wounds and the fate of prisoners-of-war; and they explore social issues such as the role of civilians, women's experience, trans-border encounters and the roots of armed resistance. They also demonstrates how the experience of war was inextricably linked to empire and the wider world. Individual chapters discuss the depiction of the Wars in literature and the arts and their lasting impact on European culture. The volume concludes by examining the memory of the Wars and their legacy for the nineteenth-century world.
List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Contributors to Volume III; Introduction to Volume III Alan Forrest and Peter Hicks; Part I. The Experience of War: 1. The Soldiers' Experience of War Leighton S. James; 2. Military Values: Heroism and Masculinity Michael J. Hughes; 3. Military Medicine Martin R. Howard; 4. Women and the Home Front Catriona Kennedy; 5. Prisoners of War Elodie Duché; Part II. The Experience of Imperial Rule: 6. Blockade and Economic Warfare Katherine Aaslestad; 7. Crossing Borders: Encounters with the Other Mike Rapport; 8. Popular Resistance: The Case of Napoleonic Italy Michael Broers; 9. Collaboration: The Case of the Duchy of Warsaw Jaroslaw Czubaty; 10. Military Resistance: Desertion Alan Forrest; 11. Liberation: Myth and Reality in Germany Ute Planert; Part III. War, Culture and Memory; 12. Memoirs and the Communication of Memory Philip Dwyer and Matilda Greig; 13. Festivals, Ceremonies and Public Commemorations Philip Dwyer; 14. The Portrayal of Heroism Richard Taws; 15. The Fine Arts and the Napoleonic Wars David O'Brien; 16. Poets and Novelists: Writing the Memory of War Philip Shaw; 17. Political Keyboard Music in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France: 'The Battle' Peter Hicks; 18. The Napoleonic Wars in Caricature Pascal Dupuy; 19. The Napoleonic Wars in European Cinema Wolfgang Koller; 20. Nostalgia, or a Ruin with a View Peter A. Fritzsche; Part IV. The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars: 21. Demobilization, Veterans and Civil Society after the Empire in France Natalie Petiteau; 22. The Impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Europe's Nineteenth-Century Gender Order Karen Hagemann; 23. Jomini, Clausewitz and the Theory of War Hew Strachan; 24. The Legacy of Counter-Revolution: Conservative Ideology and Legitimism in France Ambrogio A. Caiani; 25. Bonapartism Robert Alexander; 26. The Legacy of the Wars for the International System Beatrice de Graff; 27. The Dislocation of the Global Hispanic World Graciela Iglesias Rogers; 28. Global Empire: Britain's Century, 1815-1914 Gregory Fremont-Barnes; 29. The Napoleonic Wars and Realms of Memory in Europe Nicoletta Marini D'Armenia and Luigu Mascilli Migliorini; Bibliographical Essays; Index.
