Category Archives: History of Violence

Reexamining the Thirty Years’ War

Posted on December 16, 2012 by briansandberg

Professor Hervé Drévillon is presenting a public lecture in the series, Les Rendez-vous de l’Histoire : Faire campagne, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, sponsored by the École Militaire in Paris. Drévillon is the latest in a wave of historians to … Continue reading →

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History of Violence Postdoctoral Fellowship

Posted on December 11, 2012 by briansandberg

The Center for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle in Australia is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Violence. For a description of the position and application procedures see the posting on H-Net.     … Continue reading →

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Women and War

Posted on December 6, 2012 by briansandberg

Warfare is often assumed to be a purely masculine sphere of human activity. This gendered conception is a myth. Women have historically been participants in diverse aspects of warfare: recruitment, training, mobilization, strategic formulation, military intelligence, war finance, logistical services, … Continue reading →

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Interview with Hervé Drévillon

Posted on December 5, 2012 by briansandberg

Historian Hervé Drévillon has launched a new Institut des Études sur la Guerre et la Paix (Institute for the Study of War and Peace) at Université de Paris I. Research centers and institutes at major universities are engines for original research … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, French History, History of Violence, Paris History, Strategy and International Politics, Uncategorized, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | 1 Comment

Piazza Fontana and Romanzo di una Strage

Posted on December 2, 2012 by briansandberg

Major historical events often have to wait for years to receive serious treatment in historical film, especially in the case of controversial episodes that produce sharply opposing narratives of those events. For the first time, the bombing in Piazza Fontana … Continue reading →

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The Cultural History of Warfare

Posted on November 18, 2012 by briansandberg

“The cultural history of war, then, is here to stay.”  So concluded Rob Citino in an impressive historiographical essay, which can be considered the first major article of military history to be published in a generation by the American Historical … Continue reading →

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Armistice Day in France

Posted on November 11, 2012 by briansandberg

This past Sunday was Armistice Day, marking the end of the First World War in 1918. France celebrates 11 November each year with a series of ceremonies commemorating the dead of La Grande Guerre, as the First World War is … Continue reading →

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SMH Group Blog

Posted on October 31, 2012 by briansandberg

The Society for Military History has a new group blog, the SMH Blog, which will offer posts and discussions of all aspects of the history of war and society. I am thrilled to be participating in the SMH blog as … Continue reading →

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Mack Holt Webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by briansandberg

This week, Mack Holt, Professor of History at George Mason University, will lead a webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France” for H-France Salon. The webinar is directed at graduate students, especially doctoral students researching the history of the … Continue reading →

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Mack Holt Webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France”

Posted on September 20, 2012 by briansandberg

Mack Holt, Professor of History at George Mason University, will lead an upcoming webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France” for H-France Salon. The webinar is directed at graduate students, especially doctoral students researching the history of the Reformations … Continue reading →

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