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1789
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 7.99The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations?France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain?lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from... more...
Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. more...
Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830 is an authoritative and lively exploration of a period dominated by events which have shaped modern Europe. In a series of articles, six leading academics present some controversial conclusions: * the east/west contrast in Europe today has more to do with responses to the French Revolution of 1789 than... more...
Napoleon and Wellington
Orion 2010; US$ 27.17On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed... more...
Napoleon and Wellington
Orion 2010; Not AvailableOn the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed... more...
Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00In this fascinating study Michael Rowe focuses on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe. It brings together the research findings of specialists in the histories of Europe's constituent nations and states during a momentous period in their development. Thematically focused and integrated within a comparative framework, the individual contributions explore... more...
Napoleon's Integration of Europe
Routledge 1991; US$ 145.00Examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, and also considers the populations subjected to French rule; the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. more...
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