The years from 1770 to 1830 were scarred by war throughout the Atlantic world. These were wars about empire and global hegemony, as well as struggles of liberation and decolonization. During this era the Atlantic became a highway for exchange not only of peoples and commodities, but also of ideas and cultural practices. New forms of mass warfare, for which patriotic-national propaganda mobilized soldiers and civilians alike, characterized these conflicts in Europe and the Americas. The contributors to this volume, all established experts in their field, examine the processes of military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization after these wars, not only by states but also by local communities and individuals, and explore the long-term legacy of these conflicts. They discuss how their aftermath influenced politics, society and culture, including the gender order, and ask what shaped the contested and changing memories of these wars in the decades that followed.

PART I: RETHINKING WAR AND POSTWAR: THE LEGACY OF CONFLICT IN THE ERA OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTIONS1. Introduction: War, Demobilization and Memory in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions; Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Michael Rowe2. The Birth of Militarism in the Age of Democratic Revolutions; David A. BellPART II: PEACE MAKING, OCCUPATION AND MILITARY DEMOBILIZATION3. Making Peace: The Allied Occupation of France, 1815-1818; Christine Haynes4. The Experience of Demobilization: War Veterans in the Central European Armies and Societies after 1815; Leighton S. James5. War, Economy and Utopianism: Russia after the Napoleonic Era; Janet M. Hartley6. Arms for Revolutions: Military Demobilization after the Napoleonic Wars and Latin American Independence; Rafe BlaufarbPART III: THE AFTERMATH OF WAR IN POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE7. North Carolina and the New Nation: Reconstruction and Reconciliation Efforts in the 1780s; John R. Maass8. The Issue of Citizenship: Jews, Germans and the Contested Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars; Michael Rowe9. The Costs of War: The Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Italian Postwar Politics; John A. Davis10. The Challenges of Peace: The High Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Britain, 1815-1831; John Bew11. The Gender Order of Postwar Politics: Comparing Spanish South America and Spain, 1810s-1850s; Catherine DaviesPART IV: RESTORING POSTWAR ECONOMIES AND REORDERING SOCIETIES12. Remembering and Restoring the Economic Ancien Régime: France and its Colonies, 1815-1830; David Todd13. Postwar Cities: The Cost of the Wars of 1813-1815 on Society in Hamburg and Leipzig; Katherine B. Aaslestad14. Rewarding Loyalty After the Wars of Independence in Spanish America: Displaced Bureaucrats in Cuba; Sarah C. Chambers15. Enterprising Women and War Profiteers: Race, Gender and Power in the Revolutionary Caribbean; Kit Candlin and Cassandra PybusPART V: POSTWAR CULTURES AND CONTESTED WAR MEMORIES16. Seductive Sedition: New Hampshire Loyalists' Experiences and Memories of the American Revolutionary Wars; Gregory T. Knouff17. Moscow after Napoleon: Reconciliation, Rebuilding, and Contested Memories; Alexander M. Martin18. Creating Cultural Difference: The Military, Political and Cultural Legacy of the Anglo-American War of 1812-1815; Andrew Lambert19. Creating National Heroes: Simón Bolívar and the Memories of the Spanish American Wars of Independence; Matthew Brown20. Celebration, Contestation and Commemoration: The Battle of Leipzig in German Memories of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars; Karen Hagemann21. Contrasting Memories: Remembering Waterloo in France and Britain; Alan Forrest22. Atlantic Revolutions, Imperial Wars, Post-Napoleonic Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies; Lloyd KramerBibliography: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions; Mark Edward Hay