Press reviews : 884
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Press reviewNapoleonica La Revue n° 18: Diplomacy, Law and Art History
Click here for the contents of this new issue of NAPOLEONICA LA REVUE: NAPOLEONICA LA REVUE n° 18: – Irène Delage Pages 2 to 3 Editorial : Diplomacy, Law and Art History (in French) ARTICLES PREMIER EMPIRE– Mireille Musso Diplomatic History Pages 4 to 21 Caulaincourt ambassadeur en Russie et la réalité de l'alliance franco-russe (in French) – […]
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Press reviewCorrecting Historical Mistakes (in Italian): "Il nuovo libro su Napoleone di Roberta Martinelli e Velia Gini Bartoli"
“Si presenta il nuovo libro su Napoleone di Roberta Martinelli e Velia Gini Bartoli: “Correggeremo due secoli di errori storici”“, in Lo Schermo.it, dated 19 March, 2014.
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Press review"Death of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin" in History Today, volume 64, Issue 3, March 2014, p.9
An article to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of the man who gave his name to the guillotine. “Though he didn't invent it, the guillotine was named for a French doctor, who died on March 26th, 1814.” “Death of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin” in History Today, volume 64, Issue 3, March 2014, p.9, […]
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Press review"Exhibit: France celebrates Empress Josephine Bonaparte"
A review of the exhibition on Joséphine currently at the Museum of the Luxembourg in Paris, in ANSA Med, by Aurora Bergamini, dated 11 March, 2014. “Her destiny was beyond any norm, from daughter of Martinique landowners to French Empress and then Queen of Italy, Josephine Bonaparte (Les Trois-Ilets 1763 – Paris 1814), […]
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Press review"History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de Beauharnais"
A review of the current exhibition at the Museum of the Luxembourg in Paris on Joséphine, by Lara Marlowe in The Irish Times, dated 12 March, 2014. “An exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear children.”
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Press review"Sex and the Industrial Revolution" by Emma Griffin in History Today, vol. 64, Issue 3, 2014
“Sex and the Industrial Revolution” by Emma Griffin in History Today, vol. 64, Issue 3, 2014, fully available online. “Two centuries before the Swinging Sixties the weakening of social customs caused by the Industrial Revolution led to a modest transformation in people's sexual behaviour, says Emma Griffin.”
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Press reviewReview of Nicole Phelps’ book: "Sovereignty Transformed: U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference"
A review by Dr Stephen Tuffnell from Oxford University of Nicole M. Phelps' book: U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference: Sovereignty Transformed, published in Reviews in History, dated 6 March, 2014.
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Press review"The Dutch Experience and Memory of the Campaign of 1812", by Mark Edward Hay
An article by Mark Edward Hay, published on academia.edu (subscription required): “The Dutch Experience and Memory of the Campaign of 1812: a Final Feat of Arms of the Dutch Imperial Contingent or the Resurrection of an Independent Dutch Armed Forces“.
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Press reviewC.P. Champion: A ‘year of peace,’ interrupted
On the commemorations of the War of 1812 one hundred years ago, and the outbreak of the First World War. “At the outbreak of war in 1914, Britain and her allies lamented the end of 100 years of peace. Sir Edward Grey, watching the lamp-lighters from his Foreign Office window at sunset on Aug. 3, the […]
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Press reviewReview of the video game: "State of the Mod: Napoleon: Total War"
“Following the abject disappointment that was Rome 2, David Hollingworth looks back to the modded perfection that is Creative Assembly's Napoleon.” Review published on 3 March, 2014, in PC Authority.com.