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Description
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russia s military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of the research presented here. Instead, we turn our attention to the actors and realities that are fundamental to the idea of military occupation: the armed forces, their deployment, their interaction with the local population and authorities. At the same time, this is not a plunge solely into military history. It is an attempt to write social history stemming from the military side of the story. This book is a sketch of how military occupation perturbed the everyday life of the people of Wallachia, how the experience of different social groups varied, how victims addressed their troubles before authorities, and how the latter reacted. It is about an occupant, and about a society mirrored by the realities of military occupation.
Introduction: A historiographical paradox.- 1. Wallachia at the crossroads.- 2. Population, society, economy.- 3. Voicing grievances in an unequal society.- 4. Conflicts: An overview.- 5. The burden of occupation: Shared by all unevenly.- 6. The accused soldiers: Portraits of aggressors.- 7. Less one-sided: When civilians fought back.- 8. Courses of justice.- 9. Beyond the official narrative.- Conclusion: 'A peaceful quartering'.
Dr. Bogdan F. Mateescu is a researcher at the 'Nicolae Iorga' Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, specialized in the social and institutional history of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (18th and 19th centuries).
