The impact of Napoleon on France and on Europe was immediate and enduring. He dominated his age as his armies dominated the continent; and no European country was untouched, or unchanged, by the events of these turbulent years. Keeping one's bearings geographically, militarily, politically and chronologically in the prevailing turmoil is no easy matter, even for the specialist, and Clive Emsley's concise but authoritative guide to the Napoleonic age will be a boon to students, scholars and general readers alike.
The Napoleonic Era in Europe
In this telling new account, Schneid demonstrates how this was possible. Schneid details how Napoleon's victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances.
|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).
S.J. Woolf, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (London, 1991). D.G. Wright, Napoleon and Europe (London, 1984). The Napoleonic Wars: General Works D.A. Bell, The First Total War. Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It ...
But above all Austria, in serious economic difficulties, was provoked into war by Napoleon's deliberate challenge to ... By taking the title of emperor rather than that of king (18 May 1804), Napoleon asserted his European pretensions, ...
Stuart Woolf, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (London, 1991), 8–13. 2. Stuart Woolf, “French Civilization and Ethnicity in the Napoleonic Empire,” Past and Present, 124 (1989), 106. 3. Napoleon I, Correspondance de Napoléon I publiée ...
In this fascinating study Michael Rowe focuses on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe.
In particular he reconstructs the course of the action in every sector of the Austerlitz battlefield, using French, Austrian and Russian records, and re-evaluates the place of the battle in the history and mythology of the Napoleonic era.
The best general account of the Church during the Revolutionary upheavals preceding the Concordat. ... Deals with Napoleon's organisation of the Protestant churches. ... The Code Napoleon and the Common-Law World (1956).
The Napoleonic Empire