Publications

From the publishers: “In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve the internal problems which it had created, before turning […]

From the publisher: * WINNER of the Young Adult section of the New Zealand Book Children’s Awards * Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards * A Junior Library Guild Selection Fifteen year old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother […]

From the publisher: “Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to speak, which were written by major authors who inherited this Enlightenment bearing, responded to the emerging concepts of love found in novels and philosophical essays. Love among […]

From the publisher: If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the […]

Napoleon’s Purgatory is a work portraying the human side of Napoleon as revealed by those who shared his exile on the island of St. Helena. Through the diaries and journals of the Emperor’s servants, generals, and companions come the stories of Napoleon’s tender love for children, his captivating sense of humor, his eternal love for […]

From the publishers: Ann Ayre Hely was born in the early 19th century in Ravenstone, Leicestershire. After the death of her husband, she volunteered to become a nurse in Turkey during the Crimean War. This is her story but will also be of interest to anyone interested in the Crimean war and the history of […]

From the publishers: Alexandra Deutsch literally “unpacks” Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity. In addition to letters and portraits, Deutsch found bits […]

As students of Napoleonic history, we are led to Germaine de Stael via the threatened (and threatening) gaze of the First Consul. And yet, perhaps, she more than any of her contemporaries stands for the sort of middle-ground, monarchic politics that Napoleon himself would subsequently embody. In this stimulating study of the crucial decade of […]

(in French) The two volumes of Éric Anceau’s “Empire libéral” (Volume 1: Genesis, Advent, realisations; Volume 2: Threats, the fall, posterity), consist of 1425 pages of an extremely dense and meticulous analysis of the last phase of the Second Empire, a period of political turmoil, reformation and modernisation – in other words, the liberalisation of […]

From the publishers: This monograph dedicated to the most spectacular example of Parisian First Empire interior architecture retraces the history of the building and the lives of its residents. The Hôtel de Beauharnais, constructed in 1713, gained renown during the Consulate period. In 1803, Josephine Bonaparte acquired the property for her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, […]