Publications

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.

Reviewed by Mike Rapport of the University of Stirling (UK) in the British periodical French History, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1998.

The saga of Baring Brothers begins in the 18th century, reaching its first peak when the bankers financed a loan to the United States allowing it to purchase Louisiana from Napoleon, despite England being at war against France. They would become the most celebrated banking house in Europe as is witnessed in the verse of […]

Originally published in 1873 and, until recently, difficult to find in translation, this is Zola's sad sad tale of a schoolteacher's ill-fated life during the Second Empire. Napoleon III's Paris is painted with the kind of colour that recalls Dickens' evocations of London. Zola's prose is brutally descriptive of his setting, which are the new markets […]

Amini’s interesting book on Napoleon’s relations with Persia (published by the Napoleon Foundation) is still available.

This is part of a series which provides studies of key, political figures in world history since 1500. The books are not biographies as such; rather they are designed to be succinct interpretative essays analysing the major features of the career within the context of its own time. This book covers the career of Tsar […]

A detailed discussion of the life and work of von Cetto and the way in which Franco-Bavarian relations in the period 1805-1815 were established. Neri illustrates how the triumvirate, Cetto, Montgelas and Maximilian I Joseph, organised the political decision-making process in the Bavarian government. Contrary to previous theories, von Cetto was not simply the executive […]

This book is a study of the political career of Prince Adam Czartoryski, a Polish patriot who rose to become foreign minister of the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander I. A controversial figure in the history of both Poland and Russia, Czartoryski played a leading role in the struggle against Napoleon Bonaparte and was instrumental […]

Reviewed by Michael Broers of the University of Leeds (UK) in the British periodical French History, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1998.