Publications : 65
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PublicationMultiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities: Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures
From the publishers:Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is instead varying and multiple, taking on different […]
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PublicationCorrespondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 8, 1808 – Expansions méridionales et résistances (in French)
Volume eight of The General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the year 1808 and the following January, 1809. Forming what could be described as the empire's turning point, 1808 lurches from apogee – territorial expansion and the meeting at Erfurt – to decline – the war in Spain, the Continental Blockade's limited application, intensifying Austrian […]
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PublicationCharging Against Wellington: The French Cavalry in the Peninsular War, 1807-1814
From the publishers:This reference and research tool charts in detail the composition of the French cavalry during the course of the Peninsular War, detailing all the movements of the regiments and brigades. By the end of the Peninsular War, only four thousand cavalrymen were left in Spain and Portugal. This was a fraction of the number […]
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PublicationThe Artist and the Warrior: Military History through the Eyes of the Masters
From the publishers: How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this […] wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century—paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture, and photographs—and documents […]
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PublicationThe Crimean War
From the publishersIn contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's […] study [] is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are […]
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PublicationAlbuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War
From the publishers:The Battle of Albuera in 1811 was one of the lesser known battles of the Napoleonic Wars; however, it was also one of the most remarkable. The battle became known as one of the bloodiest battles of the Peninsular War not only for the number of troops that were lost but also because […]
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PublicationWarships of the Napoleonic Era: Design, Development and Deployment
From the publishers:Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant seapower was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy […]
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PublicationEmpress Eugénie and the Arts: Politics and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
From the publishers:Reconstructing Empress Eugénie's position as a private collector and a public patron of a broad range of media, this study is the first to examine Eugénie (1826–1920), whose patronage of the arts has been overlooked even by her many biographers. The empress's patronage and collecting is considered within the context of her political […]
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PublicationNapoleon and the Rebel
From the publishers:Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's objections, […]
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PublicationMémoires de Napoléon: L’île d’Elbe et les Cent-Jours 1814-1815 (Vol. III) (in French)
From the publishers:During the last years of his life, Napoleon set to dictating his memoirs. These texts should not, however, be confused with the memoirs published by his companions in exile, the success of which has often seen the French emperor's own account of his life left in the dark. Conscious of the remarkable nature […]