Wellington's Men: The British Soldier of the Napoleonic Wars [PDF]
, 2015 The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo offers an opportunity to think critically about the historiography of the Napoleonic Wars. This article argues that orthodox military histories of the period have tended to neglect the experience of the common ...
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ILCEA, 2018 Since the end of the 19th century, the land of Baden had the reputation of a model state in Southern Germany (Musterländle in Alemannic German), due to its excellent administration and the “liberal” constitution of 1818 granted by the Grand-Duke after ...
Thomas Nicklas
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History in the Life and Work of F. M. Dostoevsky [PDF]
Два века русской классикиThe article is devoted to the role of history in the life and work of F. M. Dostoevsky. The writer studied world and Russian history throughout his life.
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Reader’s Notes and Thoughts About Napoleon: Notebook of the Torzhok Merchant Vasiliy Kozminykh [PDF]
Два века русской классикиThe article is devoted to a personal document, the “notebook” of the Torzhok merchant Vasily Kozminykh (1852). The manuscript contains extracts from newspapers and journals, notes on local events, and historical discussions.
Tatyana N. Galasheva
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Free Ports, Free Trade, Freedom: Napoleon’s Manifold Legacy in Institutions and Images
, 2023 The legacy of Napoleon - the empire after the emperor - is a well-established field of study that has seen a flourishing of contributions investigating the enduring impact of Napoleonic administrative reforms and the vital fascination of the Napoleonic ...
Giulia Delogu
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I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
Studia LitterarumThe article explores the presence of I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” as a book within a book in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, making the first approaches to the development of the topic “Dostoevsky and Krylov,” which practically did not attract the attention
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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“Those Were Glorious Times, Sir!” The Napoleonic Wars and the Image of the Partisan Figner in Dostoevsky’s Short Story “The Demobbed” [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журналThis work is the first piece of research in the history of Dostoevsky studies dedicated to the early short story “The Demobbed,” which is part of the cycle Stories of an Experienced Man (From the Notes of an Unknown) (1848).
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Between Memory and History: Political Uses of the Napoleonic Past in France, 1815-1840 [PDF]
, 2011 This dissertation examines the political uses of historical memory in France between 1815 and 1848 through the lens of the Napoleonic myth. Reflections on the recent Napoleonic past permeated opposition discourse throughout the Restoration despite the ...
Naujoks, Natasha S.
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The myth of sublime (sublimation) and the existence of Polish soldiers in the years 1806–1807
, 2021 Fundamentalny mit wzniosłości (sublimacji) jest istotnym elementem legendy napoleońskiej. We wzniosłości widzimy ogólne kontury, pozbawione codzienności.
Srogosz, Tadeusz
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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