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Absolute War - Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820 (Hardcover)
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Absolute War - Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820 (Hardcover)
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Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history.
Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually
been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points
for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of
studies from Mark Hewitson that explore how such conflicts were
experienced by soldiers and civilians during wartime, and how they
were subsequently imagined and understood during peacetime, from
Clausewitz and Kleist to Junger and Adorno. Without such an
understanding, it is difficult to make sense of the dramatic shifts
characterising the politics of Germany and Europe over the past two
centuries. The studies argue that the ease - or reluctance - with
which Germans went to war, and the far-reaching consequences of
such wars on domestic politics, were related to soldiers' and
civilians' attitudes to violence and death, as well as to long-term
transformations in contemporaries' conceptualisation of conflict.
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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