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Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World, 1588–1943
From the Armada to Stalingrad
- 192 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World, 1588–1943
From the Armada to Stalingrad
About this book
Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the transformation of battles into sites of memory and meaning. Cast into epic myths of the fight of Good against Evil, of punishment for decadence or reward for virtue, of the birth of a nation or the collective assertion against a tyrant, the defense of Civilisation against the Barbarians, Christendom against the Infidel, particular battles have acquired fame beyond their immediate contemporaneous relevance.The great battles of modern history examined in this second volume range from the defeat of the Armada and the relief of Vienna, to Chatham, Culloden, Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme and Stalingrad. In each chapter, the historical events surrounding a battle form the backdrop for multiple later interpretations, which, consciously or unconsciously, carry political agendas, some for further bloodshed and sacrifice, but others for the more recent and laudable phenomenon of reconciliation over the graves of the dead.
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Yes, you can access Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World, 1588–1943 by Beatrice Heuser,Athena S. Leoussi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 19th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Second Volume - Beatrice Heuser and Athena Leoussi
- Chapter 2 The Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588: ‘Prose epic of the modern English nation’ - Andrew Lambert
- Chapter 3 Chatham 1667: A Forgotten Invasion and the Myth of a Moth - J. D. Davies
- Chapter 4 Vienna 1683 and the Defence of Europe - Beatrice Heuser
- Chapter 5 Culloden 1746: Six Myths and their Politics - Beatrice Heuser
- Chapter 6 Waterloo 1815 – the Battle for History - Alan Forrest
- Chapter 7 Gettysburg, 1863, and American National Identity - Georg Schild
- Chapter 8 Busting the Myths of the Somme 1916 - Mungo Melvin
- Chapter 9 Stalingrad 1942/43: The Anti-Myth of German National Identity - Andreas Behnke
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Endnotes
- Plate section