Description: New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.
Brief description: ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
Review Quotes: The contributions transmit, based on the example of a great variety of mostly literary texts from the German-language regions, a lively impression of the extent to which the experience and imagery of war and the culture of war put their stamp on contemporary discourse . . . . In doing so, they reflect the great pride of place of the military and war in society between the end of the eighteenth century and the end of the Napoleonic Age. . . . [T]his collection delivers important insights about the form, content, and breadth of the societal discourse about war and peace [during this period].-- "ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR HISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG"