Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I The Experience of War
- Part II The Experience of Imperial Rule
- Part III War, Culture and Memory
- Part IV The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars
- 21 Demobilisation, Veterans and Civil Society after the Empire in France
- 22 Women, the Nation and the Collective Memory of the Napoleonic Wars
- 23 Jomini, Clausewitz and the Theory of War
- 24 The Legacy of Counter-revolution: Conservative Ideology and Legitimism in France
- 25 Bonapartism
- 26 The Legacy of the Wars for the International System
- 27 The Dislocation of the Global Hispanic World
- 28 Global Empire: Britain’s Century, 1815–1914
- 29 The Napoleonic Wars and Realms of Memory in Europe
- Bibliographic Essays
- Index
22 - Women, the Nation and the Collective Memory of the Napoleonic Wars
from Part IV - The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I The Experience of War
- Part II The Experience of Imperial Rule
- Part III War, Culture and Memory
- Part IV The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars
- 21 Demobilisation, Veterans and Civil Society after the Empire in France
- 22 Women, the Nation and the Collective Memory of the Napoleonic Wars
- 23 Jomini, Clausewitz and the Theory of War
- 24 The Legacy of Counter-revolution: Conservative Ideology and Legitimism in France
- 25 Bonapartism
- 26 The Legacy of the Wars for the International System
- 27 The Dislocation of the Global Hispanic World
- 28 Global Empire: Britain’s Century, 1815–1914
- 29 The Napoleonic Wars and Realms of Memory in Europe
- Bibliographic Essays
- Index
Summary
In the century after the Napoleonic Wars ended, memories of these conflicts were regarded as an important part of the national heritage, especially in the countries that had fought in the coalition against Napoleon. In his bibliography of the Napoleonic era, published 100 years later, the German historian Friedrich M. Kircheisen estimated that 200,000 essays and books, including translations, appeared in Europe and beyond in the previous century. For his bibliography he selected 8,000 titles he considered ‘necessary for an understanding of the Napoleonic era’. He included only those texts that met his standards of scholarly historiography and biography, whose value as sources he acknowledged or which he deemed part of the literary canon. For that reason, he did not include thousands of popular memory texts – including commemorative broadsheets, autobiographies, war memoirs, biographies and novels, as well as pictorial volumes.1
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- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars , pp. 451 - 474Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022