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Napoleon III and the Second Empireby Roger D. Price
Routledge 1997; US$ 25.95In Napoleon III , Roger Price considers the mid-century crisis which provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with the opportunity to gain elective office as President, and offers a historio graphical review of the ruler and his regime. more...
Congress of Vienna 1814-1815by Tim Chapman
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95The Congress of vienna offers a readable introduction to this difficult topic, providing a background to the negotiations summary of the agreements reached and assessment of the longer term consequences. more...
France, 1814-1940by J.P.T. Bury
Routledge 2003; US$ 32.95This famous work has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoratative account of this fascinating period. more...
France and 1848by William Fortescue
Routledge 2005; US$ 36.951848 was a year of revolution throughout Europe. Examining the economic, social and political crises, France in Revolution evaluates the political history of France during the revolution of 1848 and the French political culture of the more...
The French Second Empireby Roger Price; Peter Baldwin; Christopher Clark; James B. Collins; Lyndal Roper; Mia RodrĄguez-Salgado
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00This is the most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire in any language. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernisation' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens. more...
People and Politics in France, 1848-1870by Roger Price; Peter Baldwin; Christopher Clark; James B. Collins; Lyndal Roper; Mia RodrĄguez-Salgado
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 48.00This book is about politicisation and political choice, in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848. The focus is on responses to the counter-revolutionary policies pursued by the imperial regime of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte following his coup d'état and on the emergence of democracy in France. more...
The Franco-Prussian Warby Michael Howard
Taylor & Francis 1990; US$ 33.95No outline can suggest the richness of detail and significance, or the superb command of language with which he invests his chronicle. His book is a masterpiece.' - Sunday Times more...
One Hundred Daysby Alan Schom
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 37.00A full-scale reconstruction of the eventful one hundred days following Napoleon's escape from exile on Elba examines his march across France, the rebuilding of his army, and his epic confrontation with Wellington at Waterloo. more...
Spectacular Politicsby Matthew N Truesdell
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00This study examines Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's use of public spectacle to dazzle the French population after the inception of universal male suffrage in 1848. Drawing on newspapers, archival sources and memoirs, Truesdell argues that Louis-Napoleon pioneered the manipulation of a mass electorate. more...
Popular Resistance in the French Warsby Charles Esdaile
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 90.00In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word 'guerrilla', but did armed civilians really play an important a role in the struggle? In this collection of essays a group of specialists on the Napoleonic epoch tease out the question, and arrive at some startling conclusions. more...









