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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

open access: yesHistory, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE: Comparing Dutch and British Maritime Technologies During the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815)

open access: yes, 2023
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).
Mollema, Ivor   +1 more
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Norman Gash: Political Historian

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 338-358, October 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Free Ports, Free Trade, Freedom: Napoleon’s Manifold Legacy in Institutions and Images

open access: yes, 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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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1057-1085, August 2024.
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).
Pim de Zwart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Napoleonic theatre and the body

open access: yes, 2016
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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Hermann Versus Varus at the Battle of Nations in Leipzig (1813): The Reception of the Hermann Myth during and after the Napoleonic Wars in Austria

open access: yesAustrian History Yearbook, 2022
AbstractThe Battle of the Teutoburg Forest between the Germanic Cherusci chieftain Arminius, or Hermann, and the Roman armies under Varus (9 AD) had served as an analogy for German–French hereditary enmity since the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). This analogy was particularly popular during the Napoleonic Wars as it symbolized the unity, independence ...
openaire   +1 more source

Nationalism and the transformation of the state

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 380-396, July 2024.
Abstract While it is often assumed that the core debates about nationalism were settled by modernist scholars already in the 1980s, there are reasons to question this theoretical ‘consensus’, especially because it fails to anticipate the wave of nationalist geopolitics that is currently sweeping through the world.
Lars‐Erik Cederman
wiley   +1 more source

Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2019
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
openaire   +3 more sources

Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
wiley   +1 more source

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