Author : Joseph Clarke
Release : 2018-08-22
Genre : History
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Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Joseph Clarke. This book was released on 2018-08-22. Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.