Press reviews : 884
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Press reviewTHE PRINCE IMPERIAL’S WATCH
The watch that the Prince Imperial was wearing when he died has been on quite a journey… taken by a Zulu from the body of the deceased prince, it then belonged to a Norwegian missionary and was eventually exhibited in public in Kwa Muhle Museum in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, in South Africa. It was even mentioned in the […]
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Press reviewThree reviews of "Went the Day well? Witnessing Waterloo" by David Crane
“Waterloo and its creation of the British myth”, Review by Robert Fox in the Evening Standard “The Iron Duke with flecks of rust: Wellington emerges as a lesser soldier than Napoleon” Review by Nigel Jones in the Spectator “It's a close run thing… but (and it's a big ‘but' in a book that's full of […]
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Press reviewMusealizing Napoleon (1837–2011): From Traditional Representations to a Dualistic European Master Narrative
Musealizing Napoleon (1837–2011): From Traditional Representations to a Dualistic European Master Narrative, by Felicity Bodenstein (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) AbstractThe paper will successively establish why national museums in the past generally constructed the image of Napoleon as a “Grand homme”, a heroic leader and patron of the arts, providing a more unified, consensual vision and tendentiously […]
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Press review2014 BUONTEMPO Cronological List of 528 Napoleonic films: Part One (1897-1945) and Two (1946-2012)
Giampaolo Buontempo's two-part 372-page digital book “Napoleone al Cinema”, chronology (in Italian) of 528 Napoleonic films from 1897 to 2012 is available for free download on www.academia.edu 2014 BUONTEMPO Cronological List of 528 Napoleonic films: Part One 1897-1945 2014 BUONTEMPO Chronological List of 528 Napoleonic films: Part Two 1946-2012
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Press reviewReview of 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates in the Telegraph (6/2/15)
Review of 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates in the Telegraph
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Press reviewThe Balkans after the Congress of Vienna: From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’ to the Crimean War (6/2/15)
The Balkans after the Congress of Vienna: From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth' to the Crimean War
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Press reviewReview of In these times by Jenny Uglow in the Wall Street Journal (6/2/15)
– Review of In these times by Jenny Uglow in the Wall Street Journal
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Press reviewReview by Susan Frances of The Second Empress by Michelle Moran (6/2/15)
Review by Susan Frances of The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
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Press review"Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783-1812: A Political, Social, and Military History" Spencer C. Tucker (Ed)
Review of “Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783-1812: A Political, Social, and Military History” on history.ac.uk “The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic is the latest in an impressive series on military history published by ABC-CLIO. Written in a popular style, with plenty of black and white illustrations and […]
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Press reviewReview of AASLESTAD, Katherine B., JOOR, Johan (eds.), Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) in Newswise
Review of AASLESTAD, Katherine B., JOOR, Johan (eds.) on Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) in Newswise.