Europe at War
In this course, we will study major military conflicts from the French Revolution to the Great War. Our aim will be not only to understand great battles, but also to place battles and wars in their broader sociopolitical, technological, and cultural contexts. Topics will include theories of warfare, the experience of warfare, the home front, and responses to warfare. We will seek to understand how wars have changed in response to changes in society, culture, and technology; we will also look at the ways in which wars have them- selves produced change. In addition, we will look at changes in the norms of war: what is ‘legitimate’ or ‘acceptable’ in warfare; who fights (and when); and what constitutes victory and defeat. Our reading will be broad: we will read military theory and history, but will also examine novels, memoirs, poetry, and film.
Department: Discipline of History
University: University of Adelaide
Years offered: 2006
- HIST2009_3009 – 2006