Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe write by M. Rowe. This book was released on 2003-03-03. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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 areas as diverse as Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia. What impact did Napoleon have on these nations, and how did they respond to his challenge?
Napoleon's Integration of Europe
Napoleon's Integration of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon's Integration of Europe write by Stuart Woolf. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Napoleon's Integration of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe explores the implications of such a project for France and its relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism, but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of each nation state.
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture write by M. Broers. This book was released on 2012-10-10. The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
Popular Resistance in the French Wars
Popular Resistance in the French Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Resistance in the French Wars write by Charles Esdaile. This book was released on 2004-12-14. Popular Resistance in the French Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution write by Martyn Lyons. This book was released on 1994-06-28. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Empire and the 'liberal' of the Hundred Days. The emphasis here will be on Napoleon as the heir and executor of the French Revolution, rather than on his role as the liquidator of revolutionary ideals. Napoleon will be seen as part of the Revolution, preserving its social gains, and consecrating the triumph of the bourgeoisie. The book will steer away from the personal and heroic interpretation of the period. Instead of seeing the era in terms of a single man, the study will explore developments in French society and the economy, giving due weight to recent research on the demographic and social history of the period 1800-1815.
