Press reviews : 884
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Press reviewThe Guardian: "Napoleon und Europa: Traum und Trauma" review
The Guardian website (UK) features a review of the “Napoleon und Europa: Traum und Trauma” exhibition, which recently open in Bonn, Germany. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press review"Napoleon’s Propaganda" on "Museum Secrets"
Featured on the website for “Museum Secrets”, broadcast by the Canadian TV channel History Television, is an interactive dissection of Jacques-Louis David's famous depiction of Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation. Entitled “Napoleon's Lies”, the presentation takes a look at the differences between the draft sketch for the painting and the finished article and explains why these changes, […]
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Press reviewBook review: Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914
The Institute of Historical Research (UK) recently published a book review of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914, by Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press reviewBook review: Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
The Institute of Historical Research (UK) recently published a book review of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press reviewThe Telegraph online: book review of Palmerston, by David Brown
The Telegraph online (UK) features a book review of David Brown's biography of Lord Palmerston. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press reviewHistory Today January 2011
The January issue of History Today (UK) features a book review of David Brown's recent biography of Lord Palmerston, entitled simply Palmerston. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press reviewChess 1812: Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander I square up on the chess board
The New York Times' chess blog, “Gambit”, writes about an item of Napoleonic interest that featured in the Russian Museum of Ethnography's recent exhibition dedicated to the Anna Nova jewellery house: a France vs Russia 1812 chess set, which includes Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander I as, respectively, the white and black kings. The official website […]
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Press reviewFrench History, vol. 24, n° 4, December 2010
Articles:“Gender and musical performance in mid-nineteenth-century France: the case of Juliette Godillion and the femme d'esprit“, by Ingrid J. Sykes, p. 576 January 2011
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Press reviewBBC History Magazine: "Napoleon’s Jews: a law unto themselves"
As debate continues over different religions having their own legal system, Eliane Glaser looks back to the revival of an ancient Jewish court in 1807. BBC Magazine August 2007 Click here for information on how to obtain this back issue (external link).
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Press reviewFirst Empire, issue n° 116, January/February 2011
In this issue: “Another Napoleonic Mystery – Napoleon's Death”, by Peter M. Friedman, p4“The Frasnes Letter, Part 3, Events And Orders: Nivelles And Quatre Bras”, by John Hussey, p14Napoleonic Newsdesk, by Paul Chamberlain, p23Under Review, p24The Legacy of Sir John Moore – Light Infantry at Waterloo, by Raymond Cusick, p27Russian Line Musketeer 1812, by […]