Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions
The Napoleonic Wars in British and Hanoverian Memory, 1815–1915
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9737497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasper Heinzen (0000-0002-6790-3787, Historical Institute, University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 529 |
| Pages | 1404-1434 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ces248 |
| OpenAlex | W2316932987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
THE NAPOLEONic WARS iN BRiTiSH clear: despite having been won by coalitions, a substantial and fairly fresh body of publications concentrates on the two battles' emblematic function in German and British national mythology respectively. 10 in stark contrast, diplomatic historians have long accepted the centripetal quality of Allied coalition-building in 1813-15, which, in the words of Paul W. Schroeder, constituted nothing less than the turning point in the transformation of European international politics from a 'competitive and conflictual balance of power' to a more peaceful 'nineteenth-century concert and equilibrium '. 11 Moreover, the new interest in histoire croise and cultural-transfer analysis has generated a plethora of studies on various aspects of the Anglo-German relationship, from immigration patterns to student pacifism, showing that Britain and Germany were 'less internally coherent and more externally open-ended' than previous work treating the nation-state as the self-evident unit of enquiry would suggest. 12 The existing literature, however, has been less successful at reconciling the substantial evidence of cultural entanglements and good will on the one hand with the xenophobic tendencies of post-Napoleonic memory and the escalation of political antagonism on the other. in the case of Britain and Germany, the key question as to why the two nations went to war with one another in 1914 despite their various entwinements still demands more conclusive answers. 13
Affinities · Biology · Genealogy · Classics · European Political History Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |