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Jasper Heinzen Department of History, University of York I specialise in the history of modern European nationalism, the Napoleonic Wars and prisoners of war. My first monograph, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, compared the impact of civil war on German nation-building in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic with the recovery from civil war of Switzerland, Italy and the United States during the same period. My latest research focuses on the word of honour (parole d'honneur) as a transnational medium of communication in nineteenth-century warfare. There exists a widely held belief that enemy soldiers in the Age of Reason acted with restraint towards each other, that this ‘enlightened’ consensus was gradually lost with the advent of total war, and that modern armies are in the process of reconnecting with the cosmopolitan, albeit Eurocentric, ideals of their predecessors. My project challenges this narrative by investigating the role of honour-based agreements between prisoners of war and their captors in western European warfare during the ‘long nineteenth century’ (1789-1918). The central hypothesis is that sharp breaks were less evident than organic progressions and adaptations. |
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Bio: Jasper Heinzen is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York (UK). I received my undergraduate degrees in history, political science and international relations from the Universities of Otago and Canterbury in New Zealand. Subsequently I completed an MPhil in Modern European History and AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to York, I taught as Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Bern in Switzerland. |
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