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This collection includes essays on the Franco-German War from a transnational, regional and interdisciplinary perspective and searches for new macro- and micro-historical access to this incisive event in European history. The five sections firstly contain approaches from the history of politics and mentalities as well as military studies. From the viewpoint of intellectual history and science studies the role of medicine is discussed among others. The articles on war reporting, journalism and the new techniques of photography are followed by studies from the fine arts and musicology that deal with aesthetic and cultural treatments of the war. The last section finally reconstructs the national and local memory discourse of both countries until the 20th century.