Publications : 93
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PublicationEducation, Travel and the ‘Civilisation’ of the Victorian Working Classes
From the publishers: “…In Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in this reform movement, focusing particularly on the ways in which four overlapping institutions during the Victorian era […]
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PublicationWellington Portrayed
From the publishers: “…Wellington Portrayed is a new, extended and up-to-date colour version of The Iconography of the 1st Duke of Wellington published in 1935: the bible for anyone wanting to know about a painting or sculpture of the 1st Duke. Since the 1930s, many new images have been found and a considerable amount of […]
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PublicationA Savage Exile: Vampires with Napoleon on St. Helena
From the publishers: “…Isabelle, a young French maid, follows her notorious mistress to the island of St. Helena after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. She discovers quickly that a “beast” roams this remote island, and people are vanishing or found drained of blood. She falls in love with Saint-Denis, Napoleon's valet, but this enigmatic young man […]
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PublicationLa strada per Waterloo: Declino e caduta dell’Impero napoleonico
From the publishers: “…Questo di Roberto Paura è il primo saggio italiano, rigoroso ma di piacevole lettura, a incentrarsi sul declino dell'Impero napoleonico. Un'opera unica e originale, il cui approccio alle vicende legate alla caduta del grande condottiero si sviluppa non solo attraverso il punto di vista delle campagne militari, ma tramite un'inedita riflessione sul […]
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PublicationThe Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness
From the publishers: “…The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the […]
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PublicationThe Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
From the publishers: “…Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and exhausted continent. At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of […]
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PublicationWaterloo: The Aftermath
From the publishers: “…This was the scene after midnight, 19 June 1815: On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armée was struggling in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; caked in dust and sweat, the Duke […]
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PublicationFouché. Les Silences de la Pieuvre.
From the publishers: “Everyone knows Fouché. Fouché from Nantes, the penniless bourgeois, the short teacher at the heavily religious Oratoire schools; Fouché the member of Convention, the regicide, the 'proconsul' of Nevers and Moulins, the 'gunner of Lyons', the destroyer of Robespierre, Napoléon's nightmare, the minister of all regimes, the inventor of the modern police force, […]
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PublicationWaterloo: Myth and Reality
From the publishers: “…More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Mameluke: The Memoirs of Roustam Raza
From the publishers: “…Roustam Raza was sold into slavery in Egypt, then given to General Napoleon Bonaparte in August 1799. For fifteen years, he was Napoleon's personal bodyguard, always with the emperor and sleeping across his doorway. His reminiscences include Russia in 1812 and life in the imperial palaces. He didn't follow Napoleon into exile […]