Publications : 1274
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Publication– L’expédition d’Egypte
This work tells the story of the remarkable meeting between between a young generation of soldiers and the intellectuals marked by the revolution, as well as the story of one of the representative peoples of Islam.
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PublicationBlood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
“The Napoleonic Wars, which bore along with them the rationalist spirit of the French Revolution, inspired the Prussian officer Carl von Clausewitz to propose that war itself is an entirely rational undertaking, unsullied by human emotion,” is the provocative beginning of this exploration of a very large subject.
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PublicationJonathan Keates’ Stendhal
The New York Times recommends to put on your list of summer reading, ‘ Stendhal “A fine life of the novelist who participated so passionately in the Napoleonic drama, which he both conveyed and deflated in The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.” The New York Times on the Web, June 1, […]
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PublicationThe Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationThe Napoleonic wars 1803-1815
This recent work covers the causes and effects of the conflicts and their place in the evolution of modern warfare. It explores and reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon’s campaigns of 1805-9, and demonstrates, in interspersed thematic sections, how incomplete our understanding of the struggle must […]
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PublicationThe Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806.
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PublicationEngineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
Reviewed by Alan Forrest of the University of York (UK) in the British periodical French History, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1998.
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PublicationSpectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fête Impériale, 1849-1870
Reviewed by John Merriman of Yale University (USA) in the British periodical French History, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1998.
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PublicationMy Napoleon
The arrival of an important prisoner forever changes the lives of the residents of the island of St. Helena. Napoleon, after his defeat at Waterloo, came to live in the family house of a young English girl on the island, and this novel for children gives a view of the great man, his life and […]
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PublicationL’Histoire, n° 214
Some periods in the life of the Prince impérial His childhood, his place within Imperial propaganda, the fall of the Third Empire, the exile in England, and the departure for, and death in, South Africa.