Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Ce...
Horne, John / Clarke, Joseph![Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/323/32309769/CHSBZCOP0332309769.jpg)
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 ancie...