The Crimean War and its Afterlife

Lara Kriegel is Associate Professor of History and English at Indiana University, where she has served as Associate Editor of The American Historical Review and Editor of Victorian Studies. Kriegel is the author of Grand Designs (2007), as well as several interdisciplinary articles addressing empire, industry, and military culture in modern Britain.

• Introduction: The reason why; 1. The adventurers; 2. The dutiful; 3. The brave; 4. The custodians; 5. The heroine; 6. The foremother; Afterword: Do or die.

'Beautifully written, gripping, and startlingly timely, Lara Kriegel's new work shows us both what is historically distinctive about the Crimean War and what lessons it holds for the wars and people that followed it. Kriegel offers new interpretations of the era's most cherished figures and tropes, but also immerses us in less canonical cultures of war. Deeply researched, uniting the best of cultural and military history, Kriegel's The Crimean War and its Afterlife proves decisively that we cannot leave the Crimean War in the nineteenth century.' Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington