Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century

Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9783319782294
ISBN-13 : 3319782290
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Book Synopsis Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century by : Joseph Clarke

Download or read book Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Joseph Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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