Planert / Blackaby Napoleon's Empire

European Politics in Global Perspective
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-45547-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 345 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale. When Napoleon died, the map of many areas had completely changed, making room for Russia's ascendency and Britain's rise to world power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Planert, Ute

Blackaby, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Series;2
3;Title;4
4;Copyright;5
5;Contents;6
6;Acknowledgments;9
7;Notes on Contributors;10
8;Maps;16
9;1 Napoleon and Beyond: Reshaping Power in Europeand the World;20
10;2 France, Western Europe and the Atlantic World.Napoleon’s Empire: European Politics in a Global Perspective;40
11;Part I The Heart of the Empire:Histories and Historiographies;55
11.1;3 Unity and Fragmentation: Recent Research Trends on the‘ neuf départements réunis ’;56
11.2;4 The Napoleonic Period in Holland from a Dutch HistoricalPerspective;70
11.3;5 Liberty in Times of Occupation: The Napoleonic Era inGerman Central Europe;84
11.4;6 Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography;101
12;Part II Re-Defi ning Imperial Order:The Ibero-Atlantic Area;115
12.1;7 Against the Grain: Portugal and Its Empire in the Face ofNapoleonic Invasions;116
12.2;8 The Peninsular War and Its Repercussions in France and Spain;129
12.3;9 ‘Perfidies, Robberies and Cruelties’: Latin America andNapoleon in the Age of Revolutions;143
12.4;10 The Empire Overseas: The Illusion of Restoration;157
13;Part III Restructuring the Baltic Sea:Scandinavia and Eastern Europe;172
13.1;11 L’Empire d’Occident Faces the Russian Empire:Inter-Imperial Exchanges and Their Reflectionsin Historiography;173
13.2;12 What Lies behind the Glory? A Balance Sheet of theNapoleonic Era in Poland;187
13.3;13 The Danish State and the Napoleonic Wars;201
13.4;14 The Case of Norway: Domestic Developments and ExternalInfluences on the Periphery of Napoleonic Europe;213
13.5;15 Decline and Consolidation: Sweden, the Napoleonic Wars andGeopolitical Restructuring in Northern Europe;227
13.6;16 Finland and the Napoleonic Empire;241
14;Part IV The Eastern Mediterranean Encounters Napoleon;253
14.1;17 ‘We Are Constituted as a Nation’: Austria in theEra of Napoleon;254
14.2;18 Illyrian Provinces from a Slovene Perspective:Myth and Reality;265
14.3;19 French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806–1814: Globalizing aLocal Geopolitics;277
14.4;20 Locating the Ottomans in Napoleon’s World;290
14.5;21 The Birth of Modern Egypt from Bonaparte’s Campaign toMuhammad ‘Alî ’s Seizure of Power: A Historiographical Essay;304
15;Part V Inside the Napoleonic Hegemony;318
15.1;22 Pride and Prejudice: The Napoleonic Empire through theEyes of Its Rulers;319
16;Index;330

Über Autor(innen)

Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University, Canada Jean-René Aymes, Université Paris III, France Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil Emmanuel Berger, Université de Namur, Belgium Michael Broers, University of Oxford, UK Jaros?aw Czubaty, University of Warsaw, Poland Brecht Deseure, Universität Passau, Germany Max Engman, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Bård Frydenlund, University of Oslo, Norway Bernard Gainot, Université Paris I, France Rasmus Glenthøj, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Jean-Marcel Humbert, Independent Scholar, France Johan Joor, International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Armin Owzar, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), France Anna Maria Rao, University of Naples 'Federico II', Italy Stefan Rinke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Martin P. Schennach, University of Innsbruck, Austria Denis Sdvizkov, German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia Marko Trogrli?, University of Split, Croatia Peter Vodopivec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Josip Vrande?i?, University of Split, Croatia