Publications : 64
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PublicationChildcare, Health and Mortality in the London Foundling Hospital 1741-1800
From the Publishers: An examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, it illustrates the intersection of health, ill-health and death with local epidemiology, institutional life and experiences of abandonment, feeding and child-care. The […]
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PublicationFrom Corunna to Waterloo: The Letteres and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816
By the editor of Letters from the Battle of Waterloo, this is the story of two young Welsh cavalry officers who served for much of the Napoleonic Wars with the 15th (King's) Hussars. Major Edwin Griffith and his nephew, Captain Frederick Philips ('Rico' to his family), wrote home regularly, and they were not afraid to […]
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PublicationNapoleon Against Himself: a Psychobiography
From the publishers:Psychoanalytic biography, or psychobiography, is the quintessential form of biography precisely because it attempts to map out the emotional life of the individual. No full-scale psychobiography of Napoleon has been published, thus the exciting new theories of psychoanalysis, which have changed radically since Freud, have never been applied to arguably the most compelling, […]
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PublicationDanmark og Napoleon (in Danish)
This book is an anthology containing fifteen essays which discuss Denmark's relations with France during the Napoleonic period. These essays cover such themes as Franco-Danish relations, French influence on Danish culture, military relations between France and Denmark, and attitudes towards Napoleon. The articles included range from analysis of security policy (Struwe), and Franco-Danish relations from […]
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PublicationNapoleon: The Story of the Little Corporal
From the publishers:Napoleon achieved countless military victories and unified half a continent; he was a corporal, general, consul, and emperor. The life and career of Napoleon sounds impossible—but it's true. His success, though brilliant, was also short-lived. Robert Burleigh's biography of the Little Corporal, illustrated by period artworks and artifacts, describes the remarkable rise and […]
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PublicationBaron Crocodile: The Story of Horatio Nelson
From the publishers:Discover what life was like in Nelson's Navy and meet the most famous admiral in the world. For ages 6-11 and above. Why was Nelson such an inspirational leader?Who called him Baron Crocodile?How did he lose an arm and what happened to his eye?Who was his biggest enemy?And who was his greatest love? […]
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PublicationLyre-guitar. Etoile charmante, between the 18th and 19th centuries
This lovingly illustrated and well-researched book, available in Italian and English (translation by Ivo Margherini) details the history of the lyre-guitar, an instrument that experienced great popularity during the late 19th century into the 1820s. Napoleon is known to have offered Empress Marie Luisa an apollo-lyre and Madame de Staël also played the instrument. The […]
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PublicationTalma, ou l’histoire du théâtre (in French)
This life of François-Joseph Talma is part history, part theatre, and part novel and as such rather like the hectic, contradictory, fascinating century in which the actor lived. Indeed the troubled, ever-changing times are brought to life again in the pages of this great actor's story, from the last breaths of the Ancien Regime to […]
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PublicationDefying Napoleon
In the later summer of 1807 a new era of British international politics dawned with the aggressive bombing of Copenhagen by British forces. This book by Thomas Munch-Petersen, senior lecturer in Scandinavian History at University College London, UK, is one of the first ever monographs in English on the subject. It deals in detail with […]
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PublicationNapoleonic Artillery
From the publishersThis is an illustrated book including 84 scale drawings, 23 figures and over 260 photographs of ordnance. It is an introduction to the subject for the collector, military historian; model maker, re-enactor, and wargamer. The book is a result of over a decade of research. It traces the development of the ordnance, its […]