Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Peripheral Visions—Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century

   • Joseph Clarke, John Horne

   Pages 1-21

3. Encounters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. French Soldiers and the Revolutionary Origins of the Colonial Mind

      • Fergus Robson

      Pages 25-47

   3. Encountering the Sacred: British and French Soldiers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Mediterranean

      • Joseph Clarke

      Pages 49-73

   4. Violence and the Barbaric East: Germans and the Russian Campaign of 1812

      • Leighton S. James

      Pages 75-95

   5. Kodaking a Just War: Photography, Architecture and the Language of Damage in the Egyptian Sudan, 1884–1898

      • Paul Fox

      Pages 97-124

   6. Rise Phoenix-Like: British Soldiers, Civilization and the First World War in Greek Macedonia, 1915–1918

      • Justin Fantauzzo

      Pages 125-147

4. Counter-Encounters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. A Crisis of Images: The French, Jihad and the Plague in Upper Egypt, 1798–1801

      • Zeinab Abul-Magd

      Pages 151-170

   3. ‘Their Lives Have Become Ours’: Counter-Encounters in Mesopotamia, 1915–1918

      • Santanu Das

      Pages 171-193

5. Capturing Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Military Ways of Seeing: British Soldiers’ Sketches from the Egyptian Campaign of 1801

      • Catriona Kennedy

      Pages 197-221

   3. 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

   4. Imagined Landscapes in Palestine During the Great War

      • Jennifer Wellington

      Pages 249-270

6. Power and Patrimonies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. 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

   3. 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

   4. A ‘Civilizing Work’?: The French Army in Macedonia, 1915–1918

      • John Horne

      Pages 319-341

   5. The ‘Hole-y’ City: British Soldiers’ Perceptions of Jerusalem During Its Occupation, 1917–1920

      • Mahon Murphy

      Pages 343-363

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.

• French Revolution
• Age of Revolutions
• First World War
• Ottoman Empire
• military campaigns

• Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  Joseph Clarke, John Horne

Joseph Clarke is Lecturer in European History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His publications include Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799 (2007) and articles and essays on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. 



John Horne is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of twentieth century France and the comparative and transnational history of the First World War.


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