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People's Wars
Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
1 718 kr
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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe''s history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on ''politics'' are still poorly understood. This study makes sense of contemporaries'' memories and histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns within a much wider context ofpress reportage of wars elsewhere in Europe and overseas, debates about military service and the reform of Germany''s armies, revolution and counter-revolution, and individuals'' experiences of violence and death in their everyday lives. For the majority of the populations of the German states, warsduring an era of conscription were not merely a matter of history and memory; rather, they concerned subjects'' hopes, fears, and expectations of the future.This is the second volume of Mark Hewitson''s study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the complex relationship between military conflicts and the violent acts of individual soldiers. In particular, it considers the contradictory impact of ''pacification'' in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during war-time. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the ''warsof unification'', leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict.
Absolute War
Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
1 312 kr
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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, fromClausewitz and Kleist to Jünger 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-reachingconsequences 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 problematicone.
What Is a Nation?
Europe 1789-1914
AvMark Hewitson,Timothy Baycroft
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2006
657 kr
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This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism across a range of European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. It aims to put detailed studies of nationalist politics and thought, which have proliferated over the last ten years or so, into a wider European context. By means of such contextualization, together with new and systematic comparisons, What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914 reassesses the arguments put forward in the principal works on nationalism as a whole, many of which pre-date the proliferation of case studies in the 1990s and which, as a consequence, make only inadequate reference to the national histories of European states. The study reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. What is a Nation? explores the relationship between this and other typologies, relating them to complex processes of industrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism and Christianity all affected - and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics. The volume investigates the significance of such controversies and institutional changes for the history of modern nationalism, as it was defined in diverse European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. By placing particular nineteenth-century nationalist movements and nation-building in a broader comparative context, prominent historians of particular European states give an original and authoritative reassessment, designed to appeal to students and academic readers alike, of one of the most contentious topics of the modern period.
Absolute War
Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
1 312 kr
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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, fromClausewitz and Kleist to Jünger 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-reachingconsequences 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 problematicone.
People's Wars
Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
1 718 kr
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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe''s history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on ''politics'' are still poorly understood. This study makes sense of contemporaries'' memories and histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns within a much wider context ofpress reportage of wars elsewhere in Europe and overseas, debates about military service and the reform of Germany''s armies, revolution and counter-revolution, and individuals'' experiences of violence and death in their everyday lives. For the majority of the populations of the German states, warsduring an era of conscription were not merely a matter of history and memory; rather, they concerned subjects'' hopes, fears, and expectations of the future.This is the second volume of Mark Hewitson''s study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the complex relationship between military conflicts and the violent acts of individual soldiers. In particular, it considers the contradictory impact of ''pacification'' in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during war-time. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the ''warsof unification'', leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict.
National Identity and Political Thought in Germany
Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
3 406 kr
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This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. During the decade or so before the war, the German Empire was challlenged openly by both left and right for the first time since the 1870s. Paradoxically, however, this pre-war crisis of Germanys system of government occurred during a period of increasing nationalism, which created a solid cross-party basis of support for the Empire as a nation-state.This pioneering study argues that Wilhelmine debates about the reform of the German Empire can only be understood in the context of a broader discussion and comparison of European and American political regimes which took place in Germany after the turn of the century. In such contemporary debates about a German Sonderwag, France remained a principal point of reference because French-style parliamentarism had come to be viewed as the main alternative to German constitutionalism. By analysing Wilhelmine depictions of the Third Republic, Dr Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism.
Absolute War
Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
2 047 kr
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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 Jünger 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.
European Integration Since the 1920s
Security, Identity, and Cooperation
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 162 kr
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have changed. It links contemporary events to historical explanation, arguing that there were long-term sets of conditions, dating back to the 1920s, which pushed European governments to cooperate economically and to try to resolve their diplomatic differences. The failure of the French and German governments to create what Aristide Briand had called a 'European federal union' demonstrated both the precariousness of the enterprise and its connection to the domestic politics of European states. After 1945, the unexpected advent of a 'Cold War' and the military, diplomatic and economic presence of the United States in Europe facilitated the gradual development of habits of cooperation and institutional 'integration', but they also placed limits on European governments' activities, as did disagreements between political parties and the expectations of citizens. As a consequence, supranational bodies such as the European Commission have been accompanied - and often overshadowed - by intergovernmental institutions such as the European Council, with the EU as a whole functioning in important respects as a type of confederation. The volume addresses a series of large-scale historical questions which are integral to an understanding of the European Union. It asks how and why citizens of member states have identified with the EU; how matters of 'security' affected the development of the European Community during and after the Cold War; whether economic and social convergence have taken place, and with what consequences; and why European institutions have come to function as they have. The study is thematic, focusing on the most important aspects of European integration and explaining why member states have decided to carry out - or have consented to - the unique experiment of the European Union.
European Integration Since the 1920s
Security, Identity, and Cooperation
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2024
1 920 kr
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have changed. It links contemporary events to historical explanation, arguing that there were long-term sets of conditions, dating back to the 1920s, which pushed European governments to cooperate economically and to try to resolve their diplomatic differences. The failure of the French and German governments to create what Aristide Briand had called a 'European federal union' demonstrated both the precariousness of the enterprise and its connection to the domestic politics of European states. After 1945, the unexpected advent of a 'Cold War' and the military, diplomatic and economic presence of the United States in Europe facilitated the gradual development of habits of cooperation and institutional 'integration', but they also placed limits on European governments' activities, as did disagreements between political parties and the expectations of citizens. As a consequence, supranational bodies such as the European Commission have been accompanied - and often overshadowed - by intergovernmental institutions such as the European Council, with the EU as a whole functioning in important respects as a type of confederation. The volume addresses a series of large-scale historical questions which are integral to an understanding of the European Union. It asks how and why citizens of member states have identified with the EU; how matters of 'security' affected the development of the European Community during and after the Cold War; whether economic and social convergence have taken place, and with what consequences; and why European institutions have come to function as they have. The study is thematic, focusing on the most important aspects of European integration and explaining why member states have decided to carry out - or have consented to - the unique experiment of the European Union.
European Integration Since the 1920s
Security, Identity, and Cooperation
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2024
1 940 kr
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have changed. It links contemporary events to historical explanation, arguing that there were long-term sets of conditions, dating back to the 1920s, which pushed European governments to cooperate economically and to try to resolve their diplomatic differences. The failure of the French and German governments to create what Aristide Briand had called a 'European federal union' demonstrated both the precariousness of the enterprise and its connection to the domestic politics of European states. After 1945, the unexpected advent of a 'Cold War' and the military, diplomatic and economic presence of the United States in Europe facilitated the gradual development of habits of cooperation and institutional 'integration', but they also placed limits on European governments' activities, as did disagreements between political parties and the expectations of citizens. As a consequence, supranational bodies such as the European Commission have been accompanied - and often overshadowed - by intergovernmental institutions such as the European Council, with the EU as a whole functioning in important respects as a type of confederation. The volume addresses a series of large-scale historical questions which are integral to an understanding of the European Union. It asks how and why citizens of member states have identified with the EU; how matters of 'security' affected the development of the European Community during and after the Cold War; whether economic and social convergence have taken place, and with what consequences; and why European institutions have come to function as they have. The study is thematic, focusing on the most important aspects of European integration and explaining why member states have decided to carry out - or have consented to - the unique experiment of the European Union.
Shadows of War
Histories and Memories of Violence in the German Republic, 1918–1933
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
2 306 kr
Kommande
How did World War I affect the course of German history in the 1920s and early 1930s? As the historian Karl Alexander von Müller put it, the 'storm' of transformation did not end in 1918, leaving contemporaries uncertain where the changes already wrought by the First World War would lead.Shadows of War: Histories and Memories of Violence in the German Republic, 1918-1933 investigates what happened when the soldiers returned to Germany. It examines the lives of those born as children of the German Empire in the late 1870s, 1880s and 1890s, who became adults around the turn of the century, only to be marched off to a different world during the Great War. The German Republic itself was a product of the war: because of the Treaty of Versailles, the republic's leaders could not put it forward as a harbinger of 'peace'.Once the guns had fallen silent on 11 November 1918, two days after Philipp Scheidemann's unexpected declaration of the republic, German troops started to leave their barracks in the Reich and stream out of the rear areas and from the Western Front, often having discharged themselves. Millions more followed behind in their units until they reached the German border, when many decided to make their own way home. They were preceded by sailors, making their way south from the Baltic and North Sea ports. By December, thousands of troops had arrived in cities across Germany, providing military support for workers' and soldiers' councils, state governments and local authorities. It was in these circumstances that the boundary between military and political violence became blurred - and that modern German history was remade.
The Great War
German Soldiers’ Experiences of Combat, 1914–1918
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
2 306 kr
Kommande
The Great War turned upside down the lives of millions of people. To contemporaries such as Walter Benjamin, it seemed as though a world of horse-drawn streetcars had been swept aside by political radicalism, inflation, the collapse of the international order, and the downfall of European culture, leading to a devaluation of experience itself. For returning soldiers, who constituted the bulk of the workforce and whose political role was critical, the Great War was a watershed in their lives, which they struggled to comprehend.The Great War: German Soldiers' Experiences of Combat, 1914-1918 connects citizens' experiences, memories and conceptions of the First World War and its aftermath, together with the political changes which were brought about by the conflict, to questions about different forms of violence. Through a close reading of diaries, letters and memoirs, this, the fourth volume of Mark Hewitson's study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reassesses the impact of soldiers' experiences of combat. Although such soldiers were not necessarily brutalized by the war, many were altered by it, making their reintegration into the postwar world difficult and unpredictable. The meanings of violence - and, especially, the distinction between political and military violence - had changed, with far-reaching effects.
What Is a Nation?
Europe 1789-1914
AvTimothy Baycroft,Mark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
3 017 kr
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This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism across a range of European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. It aims to put detailed studies of nationalist politics and thought, which have proliferated over the last ten years or so, into a wider European context. By means of such contextualization, together with new and systematic comparisons, What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914 reassesses the arguments put forward in the principal works on nationalism as a whole, many of which pre-date the proliferation of case studies in the 1990s and which, as a consequence, make only inadequate reference to the national histories of European states. The study reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. What is a Nation? explores the relationship between this and other typologies, relating them to complex processes of industrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism and Christianity all affected - and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics. The volume investigates the significance of such controversies and institutional changes for the history of modern nationalism, as it was defined in diverse European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. By placing particular nineteenth-century nationalist movements and nation-building in a broader comparative context, prominent historians of particular European states give an original and authoritative reassessment, designed to appeal to students and academic readers alike, of one of the most contentious topics of the modern period.
What Is a Nation?
Europe 1789-1914
AvTimothy Baycroft,Mark Hewitson
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
797 kr
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Nationalism has had repercussions throughout the modern era, lying at the root of wars, revolutions, and social and cultural movements. This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism as they originated and developed in Europe throughout the 'long nineteenth century', and offers an original and authoritative reassessment.What is a Nation? reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated, and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. This and other typologies are explored and related to complex processes of industrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization, and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism, and Christianity all affected - and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics. By examining the significance of such controversies and institutional changes in a broader European context, together with new and systematic comparisons, this book reassesses the history of modern nationalism.
The People's Wars
Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
2 747 kr
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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on 'politics' are still poorly understood. This study makes sense of contemporaries' memories and histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns within a much wider context of press reportage of wars elsewhere in Europe and overseas, debates about military service and the reform of Germany's armies, revolution and counter-revolution, and individuals' experiences of violence and death in their everyday lives. For the majority of the populations of the German states, wars during an era of conscription were not merely a matter of history and memory; rather, they concerned subjects' hopes, fears, and expectations of the future.This is the second volume of Mark Hewitson's study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the complex relationship between military conflicts and the violent acts of individual soldiers. In particular, it considers the contradictory impact of 'pacification' in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during war-time. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the 'wars of unification', leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict.
Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866
Revolutionary Nation
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
628 kr
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Mark Hewitson reassesses the relationship between politics and the nation during a crucial period in order to answer the question of when, how and why the process of unification began in Germany. He focuses on how the national question was articulated in the public sphere by the press, political writers and key political organizations.
Making Sense of Violence
Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
AvMatthew D'Auria,Mark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 561 kr
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This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it ‘a cultural act’ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiers’ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed.The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire.
Making Sense of Violence
Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
AvMatthew D'Auria,Mark Hewitson
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
660 kr
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This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it ‘a cultural act’ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiers’ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed.The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire.
Europe and the East
Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989
AvMark Hewitson,Jan Vermeiren
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 561 kr
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century.Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe.Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.
Europe and the East
Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989
AvMark Hewitson,Jan Vermeiren
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
660 kr
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century.Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe.Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.
Europe in Crisis
Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957
AvMark Hewitson,Matthew D’Auria
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 936 kr
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The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of "crisis," many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role, and significance.
Europe in Crisis
Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957
AvMatthew D'Auria,Mark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
328 kr
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The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of ''crisis,'' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent’s scope, nature, role and significance.
Making Sense of Violence
Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
AvMark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
857 kr
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This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.
Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it â€˜a cultural actâ€™ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiersâ€™ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed.
The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue EuropÃ©enne dâ€™Histoire.
Making Sense of Violence
Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
AvMark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
857 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.
Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it â€˜a cultural actâ€™ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiersâ€™ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed.
The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue EuropÃ©enne dâ€™Histoire.
Europe and the East
Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989
AvJan Vermeiren,Mark Hewitson
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2023
768 kr
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century.
Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe.
Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.
Europe and the East
Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989
AvJan Vermeiren,Mark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
768 kr
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century.
Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe.
Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.
Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914
AvMark Hewitson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 657 kr
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The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book is an ambitious re-assessment of how Wilhelmine Germans conceived of themselves and the German Empire's place in the world in the lead-up to the First World War. Mark Hewitson re-examines the varying forms of national identification, allegiance and politics following the creation and consolidation of a German nation-state in light of contemporary debates about modernity, race, industrialization, colonialism and military power. Despite the new claims being made for the importance of empire to Germany's development, he reveals that the majority of transnational networks and contemporaries' interactions and horizons remained intra-European or transatlantic rather than truly global.
Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914
AvMark Hewitson
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
574 kr
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The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book is an ambitious re-assessment of how Wilhelmine Germans conceived of themselves and the German Empire's place in the world in the lead-up to the First World War. Mark Hewitson re-examines the varying forms of national identification, allegiance and politics following the creation and consolidation of a German nation-state in light of contemporary debates about modernity, race, industrialization, colonialism and military power. Despite the new claims being made for the importance of empire to Germany's development, he reveals that the majority of transnational networks and contemporaries' interactions and horizons remained intra-European or transatlantic rather than truly global.
Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
559 kr
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The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries'' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book is an ambitious re-assessment of how Wilhelmine Germans conceived of themselves and the German Empire''s place in the world in the lead-up to the First World War. Mark Hewitson re-examines the varying forms of national identification, allegiance and politics following the creation and consolidation of a German nation-state in light of contemporary debates about modernity, race, industrialization, colonialism and military power. Despite the new claims being made for the importance of empire to Germany''s development, he reveals that the majority of transnational networks and contemporaries'' interactions and horizons remained intra-European or transatlantic rather than truly global.
Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914
AvMark Hewitson
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2018
559 kr
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The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries'' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book is an ambitious re-assessment of how Wilhelmine Germans conceived of themselves and the German Empire''s place in the world in the lead-up to the First World War. Mark Hewitson re-examines the varying forms of national identification, allegiance and politics following the creation and consolidation of a German nation-state in light of contemporary debates about modernity, race, industrialization, colonialism and military power. Despite the new claims being made for the importance of empire to Germany''s development, he reveals that the majority of transnational networks and contemporaries'' interactions and horizons remained intra-European or transatlantic rather than truly global.

Mark Hewitson – författare

People's Wars

Absolute War

What Is a Nation?

Absolute War

People's Wars

National Identity and Political Thought in Germany

Absolute War

European Integration Since the 1920s

European Integration Since the 1920s

European Integration Since the 1920s

Shadows of War

The Great War

What Is a Nation?

What Is a Nation?

The People's Wars

Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866

Making Sense of Violence

Making Sense of Violence

Europe and the East

Europe and the East

Europe in Crisis

Europe in Crisis

Making Sense of Violence

Making Sense of Violence

Europe and the East

Europe and the East

Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914

Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914

Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914

Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914