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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Military and diplomatic repercussions -- 1 Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870-1875 -- 2 The legacy of the Franco-Prussian War on Belgian neutrality -- 3 The Franco-Prussian War and the Ottoman adoption of Realpolitik -- 4 Political discourses between militarism and pacifism in th -- Part 2 Nationalism and race -- 5 The impact of the war on definitions of the nation in France and Germany -- 6 Historiographical nationalism as a legacy of the Franco-Prussian War -- 7 Racist responses to the national calamity -- Part 3 Perceptions and memories -- 8 Uninvolved and fascinated battlefield tourists in the Franco-Prussian War -- 9 Journalists, artists and writers as Schlachtenbummler on the battlefields of 1870-71 -- 10 Map representations of the war of 1870-71 in German school textbooks -- Part 4 Cultural representations -- 11 Losing the war and losing heart in the fiction of the defeat -- 12 The reception of French 1870-71 war literature in Britain -- 13 The war of 1870-71 as a digital event on Twitter and YouTube -- Select bibliography -- Index.

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 has traditionally been seen as a limited conflict between French and German forces. This edited volume challenges this view and shows that it was a war of ideas, values and perceptions which transformed the political, diplomatic, and military culture across Europe.