Publications

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. Warrior Nation explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to […]

This short book, published by the Associazione Tolentino 815 (a group dedicated to the history of Tolentino), is a translation into Italian of the book Campagne des Austrichiens contre Murat en 1815, by V** C** de Br, temoin oculaire published in Brussels by A. Wahlen in 1821. In fact, the author was the Austrian captain, Baron […]

Russia in the 19th century was riven with class, language, educational and political distinctions. In is new book Orlando Figes claims that it was the through her artists that Russia made for herself a sense of collective identity.Review in the Guardian Unlimited.

Having outlined the origins of Austrian control of Venetia in terms of radical political and territorial changes experienced during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, this work examines the mechanisms of Austrian rule. Early chapters focus on the uncomfortable tensions that existed between the temptation to retain a modernised machinery of state inherited from Napoleon's Kingdom […]

A dual biography of Napoleon and Wellington, two generals who became fixated with each other. It explores the constantly changing relationship between them, offering a study in pride, rivalry, propaganda and revenge.

Grigsby in her book considers six individual works of four artists – Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix – painted in the decades following the French Revolution. These paintings graphically show violent events in distant, colonial lands. She argues that their 'disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history […]

The story of the inventor of the Beaufort scale, a British sailor during the Napoleonic period. Born in 1774, Francis Beaufort went to sea with the East India Company at the age of 14. With a passion for mathematics, he spent much of naval career in scientific observation, becoming hydrographer to the navy at the […]

This is a very useful short volume presenting translations of Napoleon's correpondance and writing to and concerning his son by Marie-Louise, done by a semester translation class held at De Paul University, Chicago, and guided and edited by Pascale-Anne Brault. The translators were, Cécile Bladier, Denise Blostein, Angela Cassata, Phil-Elleana Ficklin, Ryan Garrett, Amanda Heflin, Lily […]

This volume is a scholarly attempt to rehabilitate Addington and his 'weak and ineffectual' prime ministership of 1801-1804. Includes a bibliography and index. Charles Fedorak is the director of the Information and Privact Branch of the Ministry of Education for the government of British Columbia, Canada.

This is a short, strongly opinionated, 'légende noire' treatment of Napoleon and his life and work. Paul Johnson is a historian whose other books include Modern Times, A History of the American People, and The History of Christianity. He is also a frequent contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street […]