Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From th...

In diesem monumentalen Buch beleuchten 57 internationale Wissenschaftler*innen unter Federführung des französischen Historikers Bruno Cabanes die zahlreichen Facetten kriegerischen Handelns vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. In den letzten zweihundert Jahren hat sich der Krieg zu einem Phänomen entwickelt, das alle Lebensbereiche betrifft und Gesellschaft, Politik, Kultur und Ökonomie verändert. Der moderne Krieg, zu dem oft Partisanenkämpfe, Terroranschläge, Massaker oder ethnische...

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link—or at least an important chain—in the global and longue durée history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the transnational historiographical turn, vastly expanding the field’s geographical scope. Its canonical chronological boundaries, on the other hand, appear increasingly narrow against this wider backdrop, giving the impression of a ...