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Illegitimate Violence During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Illegitimate Violence During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Bührer, Tanja
Deflers, Isabelle
Gahlen, Gundula

Hardcover

Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

French HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 26, 2027

ISBN10: 3032350964
ISBN13: 9783032350961
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 26 2027
Language: English

This open access book focuses on the contested understandings of illegitimate war violence during the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars. In using the concept of illegitimate violence as a tool of analysis, it sheds new light on the evaluation of war violence and the associated dynamics in the age of revolutions and reforms. It argues that instead of analysing the various systems of norms and the extent to which they were observed, it is far more useful to start with concrete practices of violence in the wars that were perceived as illegitimate and to examine the associated discourses, the interaction between discourses and practices, and the dynamics of violence. This approach allows for far-reaching insights into the patterns of interpretation, values and behaviour of belligerents that go beyond contemporary notions of ius in bello. In examining the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars through the lens of illegitimate war violence, this volume therefore also contributes to a better understanding of the international and national postwar legal, security and civil order.

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