Publications : 1274
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PublicationParis, religious capital during the Second Empire
Paris, the city of revolutions, is traditionally presented as a 19th-century centre of ‘dechristianisation’. But Paris was also the powerhouse of French religious regeneration, notably catholic. With its concentration of catholic clergy from many different backgrounds and geographical areas, and with increasingly large numbers of religious communities, Paris, itself an industrial centre in full expansion, […]
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PublicationThe final act: the Roads to Waterloo
Europe, 1814-1815. As the continent grappled with an uneasy peace Tsar Alexander, Talleyrand, Wellington, Castlereagh, and Metternich, along with a supporting cast of rogues, mistresses, clairvoyants and spies, turned Vienna into a theatre of intrigue that shaped the face of Europe for the century to come. And in the shadows–Napoleon, who would rise again to […]
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PublicationNapoleon: a biography
This biography by Frank McLynn, a journalist for the Irish Times, underlines the unresolved tensions within the man, how he was on the one hand a perfectly rational product of the enlightenment and yet on the other consulted a ‘little red man' when about to make important decisions. This later ‘primitiveness' (as McLynn describes it) […]
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PublicationNapoleonic Art: Nationalism, and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848)
A book on the popular representation of Napoleon and the 'legend' post the Congress of Vienna.
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PublicationJena Campaign, 1806
Number 33 in the 'Napoleonic Library' series, this book recounts the events surrounding the battel of Jena.
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PublicationNapoleon’s Proconsul in Egypt: The life and times of Bernardino Drovetti
The early nineteenth century was the ‘heroic age’ of Egyptology, marked by characters such as Champollion, Belzoni and Salt. But it was also a period dominated by Napoleon, who had led his ill-considered invasion of Egypt in 1798-99. Bernardino Drovetti was Napoleon’s proconsul in Egypt and one of the most important figures in Egypt of […]
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PublicationSoldier of the Empire, 1799-1816. THE NOTE-BOOKS OF CAPTAIN COIGNET
Introduction by Sir John Fortescue
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PublicationHeroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail, David Cordingly
An interesting survey of the role of women on shore and at sea during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Also published in the US by Random House Adult Trade Group under the strangely anodyne title ‘Women sailors and Sailors’ Women: An untold maritime history’! Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age […]
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PublicationNapoleon at Waterloo
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PublicationON WELLINGTON: THE DUKE AND HIS ART OF WAR