Karen Hagemann
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Karen Hagemann
Karen Hagemann teaches modern German and European history, military history and women’s and gender history from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Her most recent monograph, Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory was published with Cambridge University Press in 2015 and won the Hans Rosenberg Prize for the best book in Central European History in 2016 by the Central European History Society.
Karen Hagemann teaches modern German and European history, military history and women’s and gender history from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Her most recent monograph, Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory was published with Cambridge University Press in 2015 and won the Hans Rosenberg Prize for the best book in Central European History in 2016 by the Central European History Society.
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Year of Publication: 2026
Karen HagemannYear of Publication: 2026
Forgotten Soldiers
Wars are mostly fought by men. But without the support of women, it would be impossible to carry them out. And indeed, women have been serving in Europe’s militaries for centuries. But they are rarely commemorated in an appropriate fashion. At most, isolated heroines – depicted as Amazonas in uniform – find a place in our collective memory, while the history of the many women who were actively...