Results 121 to 130 of about 9,623 (184)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
BRITISH SOLDIERS AND THE LEGEND OF NAPOLEON
The Historical Journal, 2017ABSTRACTInvestigating the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British officers and enlisted men from the Napoleonic Wars, this article explores the hitherto neglected subject of British soldiers’ perceptions of Napoleon. Soldiers often formed mixed and ambivalent views on Napoleon.
openaire +1 more source
The Napoleonic Legend and the War Scare of 1840
The International History Review, 2013The Eastern Crisis of 1839–41 originated in the Ottoman Empire and in a bid for independence by the indomitable Mehemet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt. It soon became the concern of the European Great Powers, and it brought them to the brink of a war with France in 1840.
openaire +1 more source
Klaus Deinet, Napoleon Bonaparte. Das Leben einer Legende, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2021
2023Klaus Deinet, Napoleon Bonaparte. Das Leben einer Legende, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2021, 378 S., 25 s/w Abb. (Urban-Taschenbücher), ISBN 978-3-17-037486-7, EUR 29,00.
openaire +1 more source
“Humanity” and the Legend of Healing Discipline from Napoleon to Salanter
2023The article reconstructs the transcultural folklore tradition to consider the moral courage and discipline as a cure for epidemic diseases. The starting point of the study was the legend of Rabbi Israel Salanter abolishing the Yom Kippur fast during the 1848 cholera epidemic. As the article argues, the Salanter legend formed in 20th century
openaire +1 more source
The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Works
2022The paper analyses the legend of the mighty financial dynasty of Rothschilds who exerted great influence on business life, politics, and culture in 19th-century Europe. Dostoevsky considered the motif of the power of money and Mammon’s greatness as one of the severest problems of his time, “a cruel time, a time of business and money, a calculating time,
openaire +1 more source