Militarized cultural encounters in the long nineteenth century : making war, mapping Europe / Joseph Clarke, John Horne, editors.
2018
D358
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Title
Militarized cultural encounters in the long nineteenth century : making war, mapping Europe / Joseph Clarke, John Horne, editors.
ISBN
9783319782294 (electronic book)
3319782290 (electronic book)
9783319782287
3319782282
3319782290 (electronic book)
9783319782287
3319782282
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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D358
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.81
Summary
This book explores European soldiers' encounters with their continent's exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the 'Levant' they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be 'civilized.' Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe's own 'civilization' (Rome, Jerusalem) or decaying reminders of ancient grandeur. The resulting encounters proved seminal in forging a military version of the 'civilizing mission' that shaped Europe's image of itself as well as its relations with its own periphery during the long nineteenth century.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 28, 2018).
Series
War, culture and society, 1750-1850.
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