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The Age of Napoleon
Author | : Charles Otto Zieseniss |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
ISBN | : 0870995715 |
Napoleon
Author | : Ted Gott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780724103553 |
This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.
Dictionnaire Napoleon
Author | : Jean F. Tulard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780828824910 |
Napoléon's Last Will and Testament
Author | : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) |
Publisher | : Grosset & Dunlap |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Author | : Edward James Kolla |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107179548 |
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Wars Against Napoleon
Author | : General Michel Franceschi |
Publisher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611210291 |
Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon, a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head. Avoiding the simplistic clichés and rudimentary caricatures many historians use when discussing Napoleon, Franceschi and Weider argue persuasively that the caricature of the megalomaniac conqueror who bled Europe white to satisfy his delirious ambitions and insatiable love for war is groundless. By carefully scrutinizing the facts of the period and scrupulously avoiding the sometimes confusing cause and effect of major historical events, they paint a compelling portrait of a fundamentally pacifist Napoleon, one completely at odds with modern scholarly thought. This rigorous intellectual presentation is based upon three principal themes. The first explains how an unavoidable belligerent situation existed after the French Revolution of 1789. The new France inherited by Napoleon was faced with the implacable hatred of reactionary European monarchies determined to restore the ancient regime. All-out war was therefore inevitable unless France renounced the modern world to which it had just painfully given birth. The second theme emphasizes Napoleon’s determined efforts (“bordering on an obsession,” argue the authors) to avoid this inevitable conflict. The political strategy of the Consulate and the Empire was based on the intangible principle of preventing or avoiding these wars, not on conquering territory. Finally, the authors examine, conflict by conflict, the evidence that Napoleon never declared war. As he later explained at Saint Helena, it was he who was always attacked—not the other way around. His adversaries pressured and even forced the Emperor to employ his unequalled military genius. After each of his memorable victories Napoleon offered concessions, often extravagant ones, to the defeated enemy for the sole purpose of avoiding another war. Lavishly illustrated, persuasively argued, and carefully illustrated with original maps and battle diagrams, The Wars Against Napoleon presents a courageous and uniquely accurate historical idea that will surely arouse vigorous debate within the international historical community.
Imperial City
Author | : Susan Vandiver Nicassio |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226579743 |
In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History