...) this past such as it was, with the intention of changing nothing within.’ 45 autobiography testimony combat Napoleonic wars wars of unification First World War Second World War Wars—especially modern wars—are at once individual and collective, heroic and anonymous, voluntary and mechanical events...

... et al. (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016). 61. See Jean H. Quataert, “German Patriotic Women’s Work in War and Peace Time, 1864–90,” in On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871, ed. Stig...

... the contradictory impact of ‘pacification’ in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during wartime. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the ‘wars of unification’, leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict....

... Theodoric Ostrogothic ruler miscegenation Bismarck Otto von Fichte Johann Gottlieb Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hess Rudolf Hitler Adolf Nietsche Friedrich Italian Wars of Unification Franco-Prussian War Fustel de Coulanges Felix Dahn Just as the early debates over German unification...

.... The chapter’s focus is on the international debates on the legitimacy of war in the context of the Crimean War of 1853–56 (Chapter 5.2) as well as on the Italian (Chapter 5.3) and German Wars of Unification (Chapter 5.4). As can be observed in these Great Power debates on justifying war, the multilateral...

...After the event, the ‘wars of unification’ seemed to many commentators to have been a connected, even progressive, series of national conflicts, issuing in the founding of a German Kaiserreich. At the time, however, the conflicts appeared very different from each other. The war...