Press reviews

Part 1 Luigi Mascilli-Migliorini, 'Questioni dell'imaginario napoleonico', pp. 19-25 Antonio de Francesco, 'Marengo, o il ritorno della rivoluzione: l'esperienza politica della seconda Cisalpina', pp.29-36 Pierre Serna, 'Necker, historien critique de Bonaparte', pp. 37-48 Lauro Rossi, 'Foscolo, Fantoni e la Lettera di un italiano a Bonaparte', pp. 49-62 France Della Peruta, 'L'esercito dell'Italia napoleonica, il tricolore […]

Curtis, Quentin, (reprinted from The National Post, December 1999), ‘Kubrick’s Bonaparte’, pp.1-2 Hatcher, Dr Patrick L., ‘Napoleon’s strategic marriage’, pp. 18-23 Dragadze, Peter, ‘Napoleon and The Almanach de Gotha’, p.23 Tom O’Brien, (reprinted from The Washington Times), ‘Napoleon’s shadow over America’s civil war’, p.26-28 Hofschröer, Peter, ‘Did the Duke of Wellington trick the Prussian into […]

Articles 'The Republic, the People and the Writer: Victor Hugo's Political and Social Writing', by Sharif Gemie, pp. 272-294 'Philanthropic women and the State: The Société de Charité maternelle in Avignon, 1802-1917', by Susan Grogan, pp.295-321 Reviews Review of Rory Muir's Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon, New Haven, Conn. […]

Articles 'Collingwood and Nelson' by Oliver Warner (taken from History Today 1966), pp. 318-326 'Southey's Life of Nelson' by Carola Oman, pp.327-332 Reviews Review of Richard Hill's The Prizes of War, The Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, by 'L.H.', pp. 338-339 Questions and Answers The correspondence continues on the subject of whether Napoleon tried to join […]

The online version of the German newspaper Die Zeit has published an article, entitled 'Kirchenland in Bürgerhand' (Churchland in townspeople's hands) on how in the French Rhineland between 1789 and 1815, with the confiscation of church lands and the subsequent sale to townspeople, the economic foundations for the new Germany were laid. For the article […]

The History Net has a very interesting article on Maréchal Bazaine and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 by the author Paul Hatley, Kansas State University. http://www.thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/2001/02012_1text.htm

Articles: 'Napoleon III, Lord Palmerston and the Entente Cordiale' by Roman Golicz, pp. 10-17 This article explores relations between Britain and France under Palmerston's liberal foreign policy during the Second Empire. Modern and Contemporary France: the Review of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 8, no. 4, November 2000, 'Special […]

Marengo and Hohenlinden: Napoleon’s rise to power’, by James R. Arnold, reviewed by Raul Massuet, Jr., p. 3 ‘Napoleon the Statesman’, taken from The man who shaped Europe, by Ben Weider with Emile Gueguen, pp. 3-6 ‘Weapons of Honor and the Legion of Honor’, by Coburn L. Grabenhorst, pp. 20-24 ‘The Battle’, review of Partrick […]

The historical context', by Jean Tranié, p. 3'Napoleonic Italy', by Marziano Brignoli, pp. 4-10'Algeciras: the naval victory eagerly awaited by Bonaparte', by Frédéric Bey, pp. 11-19'The Concordat (July 1801-April 1802)', by Thierry Lentz, pp. 20-26'The political press under the Consulate', by Thierry Lentz, pp. 27-31'From Badajoz to Madrid (June-September 1801)', by Michel Kerautret, pp. 32-36'Vivant […]

Follies of grandeur: Victorian fortifications against a threat that wasn’t’ by Michael Partridge, pp. 42-3. Recommended bibliography, Hamilton, C. I., Anglo-French Naval Rivalry 1840-1870, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 372 p., ISBN 019820261X ‘Pass Notes: Napoleon’ by Nicolas Kinloch, p. 89