The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had an enduring influence on the collective memory of all European nations and regions, and have given them an international dimension. These essays look at how the French Wars were remembered in personal diaries, paintings and literature, allowing a comparative analysis with atransnational perspective.
Author Biography:
KIRSTIN BUCHINGERResearch Fellow, the Centre for French Studies, the Free University of Berlin, Germany
ALAN FORRESTProfessor of Modern History, the University of York, UK
ÉTIENNE FRANÇOIS Professor Emeritus of History, the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France
KAREN HAGEMANNJames G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
HOLGER HOOCKCarroll J. Amundson Professor of British History, the University of Pittsburgh, USA
LEIGHTON S. JAMES Lecturer in History, the University of Swansea, UK
CATRIONA KENNEDY Lecturer in History, the University of York, UK
PETER K. KLEINProfessor Emeritus of Art History, the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany
WOLFGANG KOLLER formerly Research Fellow, the Centre for French Studies, the Free University of Berlin, Germany
RUTH LEISEROWITZDeputy Director, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland
LAURENCE MONTROUSSIER-FAVREResearch fellow, CHERPA, Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France
DAVID O'BRIENAssociate Professor of Art History, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
MARINA PELTZER Member of the Board of Trustees of the Brussels Royal Society of Archaeology, Belgium
LARS PETERSAcademic Consultant, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Berlin, Germany
ROLF REICHARDT Professor h.c. for Modern History, the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany
MARIA SCHULTZResearch Assistant, the Gedenk- und Begegnungsstätte Leistikowstraße, Potsdam, Germany
BERNHARD STRUCKReader in Modern History, the University of St. Andrews, UK
MARIE-CÉCILE THORAL Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK