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The Place of the Napoleonic Myth in The Red and the Black
The problem contained in this study was Stendhal's use of the Napoleonic myth in his novel The Red and the Black. This study dealt primarily with Stendhal's purpose in using the myth as a basis for his novel and with the extent to which the principal ...
Kappel, Mary
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Ei fu... il codice (anche). La costruzione di un mito attraverso le immagini
Si intende ragionare intorno alla genesi, allo spirito, ai contenuti e alla fortuna (se non al mito) del codice civile del 1804 alla luce delle rappresentazioni dello stesso coeve e successive all’età napoleonica.This study intends to analyse the ...
Stefano Solimano
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
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Napoleonic theatre and the body
Society of Dix-neuviémistes annual conference, Paris April 2016 Three members of the French Theatre of the Napoleonic era ran a panel on Napoleonic theatre and the body at the SDN annual conference last week.
Katherine Astbury
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Norman Gash: Political Historian
Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
Abstract There has still been too little detailed work on the protectionism that emerged in the wake of the Great Depression. In this paper we explore the experiences of two countries that have been largely neglected in the literature, the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies (NEI).
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French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era
The purpose of this blog is to chart progress on an AHRC-funded research project based at the University of Warwick entitled ‘French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era’. The project is being run by Dr Katherine Astbury (French Studies) and the team is made up
Katherine Astbury
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The global impact of the Napoleonic Wars
An article sweeping through the ways in which the Napoleonic Wars intersected with imperial rivalries, frictions and political conflicts across the ...
Rapport, Michael
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The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an opportunity to compare British and Dutch maritime technologies during the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815).
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