Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century: Making War, Mapping Europe (War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850)

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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction: Peripheral Visions—Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century (Joseph Clarke, John Horne)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 French Soldiers and the Revolutionary Origins of the Colonial Mind (Fergus Robson)....Pages 25-47 Encountering the Sacred: British and French Soldiers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Mediterranean (Joseph Clarke)....Pages 49-73 Violence and the Barbaric East: Germans and the Russian Campaign of 1812 (Leighton S. James)....Pages 75-95 Kodaking a Just War: Photography, Architecture and the Language of Damage in the Egyptian Sudan, 1884–1898 (Paul Fox)....Pages 97-124 Rise Phoenix-Like: British Soldiers, Civilization and the First World War in Greek Macedonia, 1915–1918 (Justin Fantauzzo)....Pages 125-147 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 A Crisis of Images: The French, Jihad and the Plague in Upper Egypt, 1798–1801 (Zeinab Abul-Magd)....Pages 151-170 ‘Their Lives Have Become Ours’: Counter-Encounters in Mesopotamia, 1915–1918 (Santanu Das)....Pages 171-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Military Ways of Seeing: British Soldiers’ Sketches from the Egyptian Campaign of 1801 (Catriona Kennedy)....Pages 197-221 Edgy Encounters in North Africa and the Balkans: R. C. Woodville’s Pictures of Conflict-Zone Life for the Illustrated London News, 1880–1903 (Tom Gretton)....Pages 223-248 Imagined Landscapes in Palestine During the Great War (Jennifer Wellington)....Pages 249-270 Front Matter ....Pages 271-271 Constructing a Literary Memory of the 1812 Russian Campaign in German Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (Leighton S. James, Sheona Davies)....Pages 273-296 Archaeology and Monument Protection in War: The Collaboration Between the German Army and Researchers in the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1918 (Oliver Stein)....Pages 297-317 A ‘Civilizing Work’?: The French Army in Macedonia, 1915–1918 (John Horne)....Pages 319-341 The ‘Hole-y’ City: British Soldiers’ Perceptions of Jerusalem During Its Occupation, 1917–1920 (Mahon Murphy)....Pages 343-363 Back Matter ....Pages 365-370