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Revue D'histoire Du Xixe Siècle, 30 Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle Société d'histoire de la révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle 30 | 2005 Pour une histoire culturelle de la guerre au XIXe siècle Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/925 DOI: 10.4000/rh19.925 ISSN: 1777-5329 Publisher La Société de 1848 Printed version Date of publication: 1 June 2005 ISSN: 1265-1354 Electronic reference Odile Roynette (dir.), Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 30 | 2005, « Pour une histoire culturelle de la guerre au XIXe siècle » [Online], Online since 21 December 2005, connection on 27 September 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/925 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.925 This text was automatically generated on 27 September 2020. Tous droits réservés 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Pour une histoire culturelle de la guerre au XIXe siècle Odile Roynette Articles L’effacement de la cantinière ou la virilisation de l’armée française au XIXe siècle Gil Mihaely Pour une anthropologie historique des guerres de l’Empire Natalie Petiteau Anatomie d’une « petite guerre », la campagne de Calabre de 1806-1807 Nicolas Cadet Vers une anthropologie historique de la violence de combat au XIXe siècle : relire Ardant du Picq ? Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau Écriture des soins, écriture du combat : six médecins militaires français au Mexique (1862-1867)* Claire Fredj Les sépultures de guerre en France à la fin du Premier Empire Jacques Hantraye Gloria Victis : Vétérans de la guerre de 1870-1871 et reconnaissance nationale Bénédicte Grailles La guerre au nom du droit Annie Stora-Lamarre Lectures Odile Roynette, Les mots des soldats, Paris, Éditions Belin, collection « Le français retrouvé », 2004, 271 p. ISBN : 2701130506. 11,50 euros. Annie Crépin David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870, Woodbridge (Suffolk) et Rochester (New York), The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003, 394 p. ISBN : 0-86207-667-7. 45 livres sterling. Natalie Petiteau David Gates, Warfare in the Nineteenth Century, Londres, Palgrave, 2001, 205 p., index. ISBN : 033373534X. 17,50 livres sterling. Jean-Marc Largeaud Hugo et la guerre, textes réunis par Claude Millet, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002, 432 p. ISBN : 2-7068-1634. 28 euros. Odile Roynette Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 30 | 2005 2 Geoffrey Wawro, the Franco-Prussian War. The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 327 p. ISBN: 0-521-58436-1, 25 livres sterling (relié) ; ISBN : 0 521 61743 X, 14,95 livres sterling (broché). Pamela Pilbeam Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Legend of Napoleon, Londres, Granta Books, 2004, 336 p. ISBN : 1-86207-667-7. 20 livres sterling. Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Saint-Napoleon. Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge (Mass.) et Londres, Harvard University Press, 2004, 307 p. ISBN : 0-674-01341-7. 49,95 dollars. Natalie Petiteau John M. Knapp, Behind the Diplomatic Curtain : Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869, Ohio, University of Akron Press, 2001, xvi + 343 p. ISBN : 1884836712. 49,95 dollars. David Brown Roger Price, People and politics in France, 1848-1870, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 477 p. ISBN : 0521837065. 60 livres sterling. Frédéric Chauvaud Roy Porter, Madness. A Brief History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, 241 p. ISBN : 0192802674. 7,99 livres sterling. Nicole Edelman Nicole Edelman, Les métamorphoses de l’hystérique. Du début du XIXe siècle à la Grande guerre, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2003, 346 p. ISBN : 2707134546. 29 euros. Jean-Jacques Yvorel Evelyn Blewer, Secours mutuel. Victor Hugo et la crise des théâtres parisiens, 1848-1849, Saint-Pierre du Mont, Eurédit, 2002, 361 p. Judith Lyon-Caen George Sand, Lettres retrouvées, édition établie, annotée et présentée par Thierry BODIN, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2004. ISBN : 2070771032. 21 euros. Claude Latta Au temps de l’anarchie, un théâtre de combat (1880-1914), textes choisis, établis et présentés par Jonny Ebstein, Philippe Ivernel, Monique Surel-Tupin et Sylvie Thomas, préface d’Alain Badiou,Paris, Éditions Séguier Archimbaud, 2001, 3 tomes, tome 1, 592 p., tome 2, 549 p. et tome 3, 524 p. ISBN : 2840491893. 126 euros les 3 volumes. Odile Krakovitch Gabriel P. Weisberg (ed.), Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2001, 296 p. ISBN: 0 8135 3009 1. 30 dollars. Dominique Kalifa Myriam Chimènes, Mécènes et musiciens. Du salon au concert à Paris sous la IIIe République, Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2004, 776 p. ISBN : 2213616965. 30 euros. Sophie-Anne Leterrier Anne Martin-Fugier, Les salons de la IIIe République. Art, littérature, politique, Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 2003, 376 p. ISBN : 2262019576. 23 euros. Odile Krakovitch Hugh McLeod et Werner Ustorf (eds.), The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 244 p. ISBN : 0521814936. 45 livres sterling. Julien Vincent Christopher Clark et Wolfram Kaiser (eds), Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 368 p. ISBN: 0521793130. 50 livres sterling. Pamela Pilbeam Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 30 | 2005 3 Gilles Pécout [dir.], Penser les frontières de l’Europe du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Élargissement et union : approches historiques, Paris, Éditions ENS rue d’Ulm et Presses Universitaires de France, 2004, 378 p. ISBN : 2130543014. 28 euros. Raymond Huard Helmut Walser Smith, La rumeur de Konitz. Une affaire d’antisémitisme dans l’Allemagne 1900, Paris, Éditions Phébus, 2003, 287 p. ISBN : 2859409033. 19,50 euros [Ouvrage traduit de l’anglais par Richard Crevier. Titre original : The Butcher’s Tale, 2002]. François Ploux Pier Luigi Ballini, La questione elettorale nella storia d’Italia. Da Depretis a Giolitti (1876-1892), préface de Pier Ferdinando Casini, Rome, Archivio storico, Camera dei deputati, 2003, 2 tomes, tome 1,. Saggio introduttivo, pp. 1-292, tome 2, Documenti, pp. 293-758. 24,50 euros les deux volumes. Raymond Huard Leslie A. Williams, Daniel O’Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks, Aldershot, Ashgate (The Nineteenth Century Series), 2003, 380 p. ISBN: 0 7546 0553 1. 47,50 livres sterling. Laurent Colantonio Joseph Meisel, Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone, New York, Columbia University Press, 2001, 398 p. ISBN : 0-231-12144-X. 55 dollars. Iorwerth Prothero Jose Harris (ed.), Civil Society in British History. Ideas, Identities, Institutions, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, 319 p. ISBN: 0199260206. 62,50 livres sterling. Julien Vincent Le mot du président Jean-Claude Caron Contribution 2 décembre 1851. Le crime le plus médiatisé du siècle* Jean-Yves Mollier Actualités Thèse de doctorat en Sciences de l’Éducation, sous la direction de Claude Lelièvre, Université de Paris 5, 3 volumes, soutenue le 2 novembre 2004 devant un jury composé d’Elisabeth Bautier (présidente), Marcel Gauchet, Claude Lelièvre, Antoine Prost. La République en ses discours, un acte de formation : 1852-1882 Aude Dontenwille-Gerbaud Thèse de doctorat en histoire sous la direction de Jean-Noël Luc, Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, 1 248 f, soutenue le 4 décembre 2004 devant un jury composé de Jean-Claude Caron (président), Pierre Caspard, Alain Corbin, Olivier Faron, Jean-Noël Luc, Françoise Thébaud. Ivan Jablonka, Les Abandonnés de la République. L’enfance et le devenir des pupilles de l’Assistance publique de la Seine placés en famille d’accueil (1874-1939) Ivan Jablonka Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 30 | 2005 4 Pour une histoire culturelle de la guerre au XIXe siècle Odile Roynette 1 La guerre, pour l’heure, n’a pas eu bonne presse dans les pages de la revue publiée par notre Société d’histoire de la Révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle. Si l’on se reporte, en effet, aux tables établies pour les vingt dernières années, on constate avec surprise que trois articles seulement se rapportent directement à cet objet 1, tandis que deux contributions ont été consacrées à l’histoire militaire – nous préférons parler pour notre part d’histoire de l’armée et de la société – et plus précisément à la conscription à l’époque impériale et pendant le premier XIXe siècle 2. Bien peu de chose il est vrai, si l’on veut bien considérer que la guerre à l’échelle de l’Europe et même des territoires extra-européens, a marqué de son empreinte un siècle ponctué de conflits d’une nature et d’une intensité certes bien différentes – il est difficile à cet égard de placer sur un même plan des expéditions comme celle d’Espagne sous la Restauration ou celle du Mexique sous le Second Empire avec les guerres de conquête coloniale ou, à plus forte raison, avec des conflits qui pendant la Révolution et l’Empire puis, à nouveau en 1870-1871, impliquent la nation dans son entier et l’ensemble des forces armées – mais qui ont tous confronté les contemporains à des réalités tour à tour âpres ou exaltantes, rien en tout cas qui puisse les laisser indifférents. 2 Ce silence relatif semble d’autant plus paradoxal que, dès le début des années 1990, d’importants renouvellements se sont opérés dans l’historiographie du fait militaire et guerrier. Une histoire culturelle conquérante s’empare de l’objet « guerre » et concentre ses analyses sur le Premier conflit mondial 3. La notion de « culture de guerre » est également utilisée par des historiens modernistes comme Olivier Chaline qui fait explicitement référence dans son ouvrage consacré à la bataille de la Montagne Blanche aux travaux accomplis par les historiens de la Grande Guerre 4. Mais rien de tel, nous semble-t-il, ne s’accomplit au même moment chez les historiens dix-neuvièmistes. Sans doute pour plusieurs raisons qui ne s’excluent pas l’une l’autre.
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