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.
Digby Smith tracks his rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804_15, and his exile.
In this fascinating book, Alexander Grab explores Napoleon's European policies, as well as the response of the European people to his rule, and demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a part of European history as he was a part of French ...
The Napoleonic Empire
This second edition of The Napoleonic Empire offers a critical reassessment of these central issues and provides a fresh synthesis of the most important research during the past forty years.
This book features detailed accounts of Napoleon_s various triumphs_as well as his biggest blunders_in battle and the reputation he left behind as a result of his exile.
Napoleon's Men provides a direct insight into the experiences and emotions of soldiers who risked their lives at Austerlitz, Wagram and Borodino.
|E Broers, 'Policing the Empire', p.161. See also Clive Emsley, Gendarmes and the State in IVineteenth-centugl Europe (Oxford, 1999), ch. 4. ... E A view propounded in Stuart Woolf, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (London, 1991).
Empire's Eagles tells the details of this story for the first time ever.
The core of this new book reveals how these men pushed Napoleon back from Moscow to St Helena. Among this generation, there was no more remarkable persona than Napoleon. His defeat forged his myth—as well as his living tomb on St Helena.
In this fascinating book, Alexander Grab explores Napoleon's European policies, as well as the response of the European people to his rule, and demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a part of European history as he was a part of French ...