Publications

  From the publishers:This […] history of the 1815 campaign provides a new […] account of the epic confrontation at Waterloo and, in addition, acts as a reliable guide to the battlefield and all related sites. The authors have divided the battlefield of Waterloo into three distinct sectors: one for each of the three armies […]

This book takes a close view of the development of French Imperialism in Italy 1796-1815. Using the vocabulary of extra-European imperialism, words such as cultural imperialism, acculturation, assimilation, integration, and pacification, Broers considers each region of Napoleonic Italy in turn, namely, Piedmont, Liguria, Parma/Piacenza, Tuscany and the Papal States. Always the overarching question is: how […]

  From the publishers:“In this life of the […] diplomat, David Lawday follows Talleyrand's remarkable career through the most turbulent age Europe has known. The performance by 'Old Talley' […] peaks in [his] relationship with Napoleon which this book […] explores in intimate detail. […] The richly flawed and abundantly gifted character laid bare by […]

From the publishers:In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the European revolutions. The book's central themes are posed by the period of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern […]

  From the publishersStruggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display […]

A DVD of National Geographic's docu-drama on Napoleon. The DVD is issued in closed-captioned, colour, NTSC format and is viewable only on DVD players which read Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only) formats.For more information about “National Geographic – Napoleon's Final Battle” visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

This volume is a re-publication of the memoirs of Captain Rees Howell Gronow, a dandy who lived the high life in Regency London and Paris. Gronow had a reputation as being a byronesque figure, “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”, and a contemporary noted that he 'committed the greatest follies, without in the slightest disturbing […]

 From the publishers:In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia–a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development–ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering […]

 From the publishers:An account and analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe concentrating on the interaction of continental politics and the war which shaped our modern world.Perhaps no person in history has dominated his or her own era as much as Napoleon, and for this reason, most historical accounts of the Napoleonic era tell the […]

 From the publishers:Napoleon's contribution to Germany's development was immense. Under his hegemony, the millennium-old Holy Roman Empire dissolved, paving the way for a new order. Nowhere was the transformation more profound than in the Rhineland. Based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, this book locates the Napoleonic episode in this region […]