Napoleon in Saint Helena, realities and legends, from 1815 to our days
A territory is undeniably associated with Napoleon and his legend in the minds of the peoples. It is not a question of Corsica, place of birth, but of Saint Helena, place of exile, of death but also of construction of the napoleonic legend. It is on this island of the South Atlantic that between 1815 and 1821 he who, during more than twenty years, made
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Popular resistence in catalonia: somatenes and migueletes in the french war [PDF]
The author treats the characteristics of the somatenes and the miquelets during the Great War (1793-95) and the French War (1808-1814), he impacts in the strategies of the formation, the problem of the desertions, the profile of the war of guerrilla ...
Moliner i Prada, Antoni
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Brief encounters with an exotic but decadent other: the image and perception of Portugal (and the Portuguese) in early victorian women’s poetry [PDF]
(Paper inserted in the research project Cultural (Dis)Encounters: Figurations of the ‘Other’ in Representations of Portugal, Britain and the USA in the Nineteenth-Century Portuguese and Anglo-American Poetry and Novel)In this paper we intend to explore ...
Guimarães, Paula Alexandra
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A theoretical analysis of complex armed conflicts. [PDF]
Rinaldi S +3 more
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"Now the great Man in the Parliament House is dead, we shall have a big Loaf!" Responses to the Assassination of Spencer Perceval [PDF]
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Raising Boys for the Navy: Health, Welfare, and the British Sea Services, 1870-1905. [PDF]
Juzda Smith E.
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This paper attempts to shed light on the image of Napoleon’s French forces that invaded and briefly conquered Slovene lands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as depicted in Slovene folklore. In some legends, we can recognize an echo of the historical reality of the time of French invasions and their rule.
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Mapping Empires, Mapping Bodies: Reflections on the Use and Abuse of Cartography [PDF]
L'exercici del poder es pot mostrar en un ventall infinit de cares, en aquest article se'n presenten dues: el domini territorial i la possessió personal. Amb una sèrie d'exemples cartogràfics il·lustra abastament els usos i els abusos dels mapes al llarg
Edney, Matthew H.
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The Cowl - v.80 - n.10 - Nov 19, 2015 [PDF]
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 80 - No. 10 - November 19, 2015.
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Patterns of smallpox mortality in London, England, over three centuries. [PDF]
Krylova O, Earn DJD.
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