Télécharger le livre :  French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe
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The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-19
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Eighteenth-Century Naval Officers
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This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-06
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century
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This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War.  In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-22
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
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This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-12
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-19
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  The Yeomanry Cavalry and Military Identities in Rural Britain, 1815–1914
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This volume represents the first dedicated study of the British Yeomanry Cavalry, delving into the institution’s history from the cessation of hostilities with France in 1815 through to the eve of the First World War in 1914.This social history explores the Yeomanry’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-23
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  The Language Question under Napoleon
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This book offers a new perspective on the cultural politics of the Napoleonic Empire by exploring the issue of language within four pivotal institutions - the school, the army, the courtroom and the church. Based on wide-ranging research in archival and published...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-02
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective
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This volume examines the French Revolution’s relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-18
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution
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This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France.This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-25
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  War, Public Opinion and Policy in Britain, France and the Netherlands, 1785-1815
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This book offers a detailed investigation of the influence of public opinion and national identity on the foreign policies of France, Britain and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The quarter-century of upheaval and warfare in Europe...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-03
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean
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This book investigates the conflict over control over the Western Mediterranean in the late eighteenth-century. The Western Mediterranean during the 1790s featured a constant struggle for control over the region. While most histories point to military events such as the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-23
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Days of Glory?
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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-26
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Napoleon's Empire
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
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Russia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life.Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-09-15
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
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Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-30
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of France in English Satirical Prints 1740-1832
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Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has been called its 'golden age of caricature', coinciding with intense rivalry and with war with France. This book shows how Georgian satirical prints reveal attitudes towards the French 'Other' that were far more complex,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-01-13
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille
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Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-01-06
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
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For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-15
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System
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Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-29
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Télécharger le livre :  Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40
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Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of this conflict,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-01
Collection : War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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