The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 3, Experience, Culture and Memory

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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.

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. His previous publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002), The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), Waterloo (2015), and The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2020). He is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (2016). Peter Hicks is a historian of the Napoleonic period and International Affairs Manager at the Fondation Napoleon, Paris and Charge de cours at the Institut Catholic des Etudes Superieures (ICES), La Roche sur Yon. His previous publications include Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le Memorial de Sainte Helene: Le manuscript retrouve, critical edition with presentation and commentary, with Thierry Lentz, Francois Houdecek and Chantal Prevot (2017), and The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, with Michael Broers and Agustin Guimera (2012).