Nationalism and Wars

Norman Geras of Normblog has managed to have me sit down and be a historian for a bit, just like in the old days. The result is over here: a review of David A Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, and Drew Gilpin Fuast's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)

Thanks for the initiative, Norm!