Philip Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0977-6801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dreams and Nightmares
Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how participants considered and prepared for war’s outcomes, and even fewer compare the dynamic of wartime projections in different times and places. Using a transnational longitudinal approach, this article focuses on a series of case-studies across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia to examine …
The French Revolution and Napoleon
Slavery and Emancipation
Smashing Statues
In 2020, as statues around the world were pulled down, intellectuals scrambled to make sense of the phenomenon. Veteran voices joined new experts from varied disciplines in contributing to the established field of iconoclasm studies, adding to the ongoing debates around history, memory, politics and public monuments. This seemingly global movement was fuelled by, and indeed fuelled, debates among the broader public about the meaning of statues in…
Theatres Of Violence
Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide’…
Violence
On Violence in History
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression …
The Cambridge World History of Violence
The Cambridge World History of Violence
In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of popular resistance, and the manifestations of ethnic a…
Eingegangene Bücher
On Violence in History
This highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker’s thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complica…
Mass Violence and the Self
In an age when emotions are being elicited through more images more than ever before, Howard Brown’s analysis of representations of mass violence is a timely reminder that different media have always been used to provoke responses from their users. Brown examines four case studies of mass violence during very different periods of civil strife in French history: the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacres of 1572, the Fronde of 1652, the Terror in 1793–…
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
‘Savage Wars of Peace’
Whitewashing History
In Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, there is a before and an after. Before the Enlightenment, the world was superstitious, cruel, and violent; after the Enlightenment, the world was rational and more peaceful. Pinker thus reduces violence to a fairly simplistic concept: all violence can be equated with irrationality, unreason, and ignorance. History is never as straightforward as Pinker would have his readers believe, and violence…
Mark Hewitson, Absolute War
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Domenico Losurdo, Non-Violence
Theorizing Histories of Violence
Violence and Its Histories
Violence has evolved over the past few decades into one of the leading interpretive concepts in history. And yet there few critiques of it to speak of, and no clear-cut methodology on how to do the history of violence. This article takes a more critical view of violence as a field of historical research by questioning some of the approaches and methods adopted until now. It examines some meanings of violence and the difficulties involved in defin…
War, Violence, Aftermaths
Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814. Occupation, Siege, Aftermath
Journal Article Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814. Occupation, Siege, Aftermath Get access Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814. Occupation, Siege, Aftermath. By Charles Esdaile and Philip Freeman. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. xiv + 221 pp. £60.00. ISBN: 978 1 1374 3289 6. Philip Dwyer Philip Dwyer University of Newcastle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 30, Issue 1…
Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System. Local, Regional and European Experiences
It has been more than thirty years since Geoffrey Ellis’s work on Napoleon’s Continental Blockade was published. It was written at a time when few made a distinction between the British Blockade of the Continent, and the System put in place by Napoleon to keep out British goods. Since that time a considerable amount of research has been added to our knowledge of the workings of the Continental System, so that we now have a much more nuanced view …
Reflections on genocide and settler-colonial violence
The debate about whether genocide took place on the Australian colonial frontier began more than thirty years ago and appears to have reached an intellectual impasse. How then did the debate begin in Australia, how did it gain traction and why does it appear more vigorous in Australia than in other settler societies? To explore these questions, this paper places the debate within a larger context, firstly by comparing the Australian debate with t…
Violence and Its Histories
Violence has evolved over the past few decades into one of the leading interpretive concepts in history. And yet there few critiques of it to speak of, and no clear-cut methodology on how to do the history of violence. This article takes a more critical view of violence as a field of historical research by questioning some of the approaches and methods adopted until now. It examines some meanings of violence and the difficulties involved in defin…
Reflections on genocide and settler-colonial violence
The debate about whether genocide took place on the Australian colonial frontier began more than thirty years ago and appears to have reached an intellectual impasse. How then did the debate begin in Australia, how did it gain traction and why does it appear more vigorous in Australia than in other settler societies? To explore these questions, this paper places the debate within a larger context, firstly by comparing the Australian debate with t…
It Still Makes Me Shudder’
This article looks at a number of French testimonies of massacres during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars committed by combatants, for the most part against civilians. Much of what we know about massacres is based on personal testimonies that are invariably from the perspective of the perpetrator, in this case, troops of the Grande Armée. Just as important as understanding why massacres occurred is to understand how they were represented, re…
Whitewashing History
In Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, there is a before and an after. Before the Enlightenment, the world was superstitious, cruel, and violent; after the Enlightenment, the world was rational and more peaceful. Pinker thus reduces violence to a fairly simplistic concept: all violence can be equated with irrationality, unreason, and ignorance. History is never as straightforward as Pinker would have his readers believe, and violence…
Citizen Emperor’
The coronation of N apoleon in N otre D ame on 2 D ecember 1804 was built upon a number of contradictory concepts. As heir to the F rench R evolution, N apoleon founded the legitimacy of his new regime on the notion of popular sovereignty. He incorporated the idea into a new coronation ceremony, a mélange of different rites and customs, incorporating aspects of C arolingian tradition, the ancien régime and the R evolution, thereby helping to crea…
Napoleon and the Foundation of the Empire
Historians generally discount the advent of the First French Empire as the result of Napoleon's personal ambition. Napoleon, however, could not have brought about the transition from republic to empire without wide support, not only among the political and military elite, but also among the French people. This article re-examines the reasons why, a little more than ten years after the execution of Louis XVI, moderate-conservative elements in the …
Public Remembering, Private Reminiscing
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars resulted in an explosion of personal recollections on a scale never before witnessed, some published in the author's lifetime, many not. These memoirs, and the stories and anecdotes told in them, shaped the images surrounding the wars for generations to come. Given the distance that often separated the writing from the event, the memoirs almost always contained projections, evasions, myths, and outrig…
Massacre in the old and new worlds, c.1780–1820
New Avenues for Research in Napoleonic Europe
Despite the vast number of books and articles on Napoleon and the Empire that have been written over the last two hundred years, there is virtually no aspect of European history during this period that does not cry out for further research. During the last decade or so, research has moved away from the traditional limits placed on the Napoleonic era by diplomatic and military history, but progress has been slow and much remains to be done. The po…
Two Definitions of Neutrality
the end of May 1803, twenty-five thousand French troops, under the command of General Edouard Mortier, marched virtually unopposed from northern Holland into the north German electorate of Hanover. When Hanover capitulated on 3 June by the convention of Suhlingen,1 for the second time in a little over two years the electorate was occupied by a foreign state. The first time had been in March 1801, when Prussia invaded Hanover with the backing of R…
The Politics of Prussian Neutrality 1795-1805
Journal Article The Politics of Prussian Neutrality 1795–1805 Get access Philip G. Dwyer Philip G. Dwyer (University of Dundee) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 1994, Pages 351–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/12.3.351 Published: 01 July 1994
Freedom and Rule-Following in Wittgenstein and Sartre
My aim in this essay is to establish what might initially and superficially seem to be an implausible if not bizarre claim, viz., that some central themes and arguments of the philosophies of the early Sartre and the later Wittgenstein are virtually identical. My strategy is to begin by outlining the strong family resemblance between Wittgenstein's approach to and treatment of his major topics language, meaning, and rule-following and Sartre's ha…
Prussia and the Armed Neutrality
(1993). Prussia and the Armed Neutrality: The Invasion of Hanover in 1801. The International History Review: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 661-687
The Politics of Prussian Neutrality 1795-1805
Journal Article The Politics of Prussian Neutrality 1795–1805 Get access Philip G. Dwyer Philip G. Dwyer (University of Dundee) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 1994, Pages 351–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/12.3.351 Published: 01 July 1994
The German Connection
Journal Article The German Connection: New Zealand and German-speaking Europe in the Nineteenth Century Get access Philip G. Dwyer Philip G. Dwyer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 1994, Page 419, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/12.3.419 Published: 01 July 1994
Historical Dictionary of Germany
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of Germany Get access Philip G. Dwyer Philip G. Dwyer The University of Newcastle. New South WalesBy Wayne C. Thompson, Susan L. Thompson, and Juliet S. Thompson. Scarecrow Press: Metuchen, NJ and London. 1994. 640 pp. £62.50. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 426–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.3.426 Published: 01 …
Two Definitions of Neutrality
the end of May 1803, twenty-five thousand French troops, under the command of General Edouard Mortier, marched virtually unopposed from northern Holland into the north German electorate of Hanover. When Hanover capitulated on 3 June by the convention of Suhlingen,1 for the second time in a little over two years the electorate was occupied by a foreign state. The first time had been in March 1801, when Prussia invaded Hanover with the backing of R…
Napoleon and biography
From Corsican Nationalist to French Revolutionary
As a young man, much of Napoleon's time was spent trying to arrive at an intellectual and emotional understanding of his own life story and of his place in the world. He did so in part by embracing his Corsican cultural heritage, and by identifying with both the Corsican independence movement and its hero, Pasquale Paoli. The advent of the Revolution in Corsica blurred the lines between what it meant to be French and Corsican, but it was not unti…
Stroud, Colour, and Metaphysical Satisfaction
In The Quest for Reality, Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour , Barry Stroud appraises various subjectivist theories of colour as they occur in the context of a philosophical project which he characterizes as the quest for reality. “It is meant to be a quest whose goal is the nature of reality—what the world is really like. And it involves distinguishing what is really so from what only appears to be so, or separating reality as it is inde…
New Avenues for Research in Napoleonic Europe
Despite the vast number of books and articles on Napoleon and the Empire that have been written over the last two hundred years, there is virtually no aspect of European history during this period that does not cry out for further research. During the last decade or so, research has moved away from the traditional limits placed on the Napoleonic era by diplomatic and military history, but progress has been slow and much remains to be done. The po…
Napoleon Bonaparte as Hero and Saviour
The media of the day represented three predominant models around Napoleon: the all-conquering victorious general, the virtuous republican who stood above factions, and the man who brought peace to the Continent. These images became the foundation of a ‘hero-saviour’ myth that helped Napoleon take power on his return from Egypt at the end of 1799. However, they sit uncomfortably with the manner in which he represented power in public that, outside…
The Amiens Truce. Britain and Bonaparte, 1801-1803
Journal Article The Amiens Truce. Britain and Bonaparte, 1801–1803 Get access The Amiens Truce. Britain and Bonaparte, 1801–1803 . By Grainger John D. . Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer . 2004 . x+222 pp. £50.00 . ISBN 1 84 383 041 8 . Philip G. Dwyer Philip G. Dwyer University of Newcastle, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 20, Issue 3, 4 August 2006, Pages 359–361, https://d…
Self-Interest versus the Common Cause
This essay re-examines coalition warfare during the Napoleonic era by looking at the three eastern European powers – Austria, Prussia and Russia – how they interacted over time with France as well as each other, and how they managed French preponderance on the Continent. Before 1812, coalition warfare was dominated by eighteenth-century military and diplomatic attitudes: overall foreign political goals were ill-defined and were characterised by d…
Remembering and Forgetting in Contemporary France
On the front cover of Claude Ribbe’s Le Crime de Napoléon is a photograph of Hitler surrounded by a bevy of generals looking down at the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides during his visit there after the fall of France in 1940. The message is clear: the author is thus directly associating Napoleon with Hitler and, as we shall see as Ribbe develops his argument, with the Holocaust. Napoleon, Ribbe claims, is guilty of a “triple crime” against huma…
It Still Makes Me Shudder’
This article looks at a number of French testimonies of massacres during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars committed by combatants, for the most part against civilians. Much of what we know about massacres is based on personal testimonies that are invariably from the perspective of the perpetrator, in this case, troops of the Grande Armée. Just as important as understanding why massacres occurred is to understand how they were represented, re…
Napoleon and the Universal Monarchy
Although the idea of ‘Universal Monarchy’ has existed since the early middle ages, the term started to be used pejoratively from the sixteenth century onwards. This article looks at the manner in which contemporaries perceived Napoleon's actions on the international scene, and how they used the term in relation to his foreign policy. Most of Europe's political elite believed that Napoleon was bent on some sort of ‘universal domination’, and that …
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Napoleon and the Foundation of the Empire
Historians generally discount the advent of the First French Empire as the result of Napoleon's personal ambition. Napoleon, however, could not have brought about the transition from republic to empire without wide support, not only among the political and military elite, but also among the French people. This article re-examines the reasons why, a little more than ten years after the execution of Louis XVI, moderate-conservative elements in the …
Public Remembering, Private Reminiscing
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars resulted in an explosion of personal recollections on a scale never before witnessed, some published in the author's lifetime, many not. These memoirs, and the stories and anecdotes told in them, shaped the images surrounding the wars for generations to come. Given the distance that often separated the writing from the event, the memoirs almost always contained projections, evasions, myths, and outrig…
War Stories
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first in history to be written about in great numbers by the common soldier. This article, which focuses on French reminiscences of the wars, examines a variety of memoirs published from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. During this time we see a different approach to war and how it was recalled and remembered, more personal, more experiential than ever before. This article argues…
Theatres of Violence
Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide’…
Theatres of violence
Regeneration and Hegemony. Franco-Batavian Relations in the Revolutionary Era, 1795-1803
The Batavian Republic was the first, and most enduring of the sister Republics established by the French revolutionaries. Founded in 1795, the republic was replaced in 1806 by a monarchy headed by Louis Bonaparte. Kubben’s book documents the complex diplomatic and domestic political negotiations surrounding Franco-Batavian relations. It is a way into the political and legal structures that dominated the empire This legal-diplomatic history of gre…
Massacre in the old and new worlds, c.1780–1820
Violence and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Violence and the French Revolution has generated a considerable body of work, much of which focuses on the processes leading toward the Terror, or aspects of the Terror and Counter-Revolution. In contrast, the violence committed by French troops abroad during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars has largely been neglected, treated as something peripheral to the dynamics of conquest or as something peculiar to the nature of mass revolution…
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