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NAPOLEON ON ST. HELENA: SYMBOLS OF RUSSIAN POETRY

open access: yesВестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, 2021
В статье рассматриваются символические структуры наполеоновского мифа, касающиеся пребывания свергнутого императора на острове Св. Елены. Устойчивый символический комплекс, сложившийся в европейской поэзии, проник в русскую поэзию, которая осмысляла его ...
Анастасия Геннадьевна Готовцева
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Between Memory and History: Political Uses of the Napoleonic Past in France, 1815-1840 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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

open access: yes, 2021
Fundamentalny mit wzniosłości (sublimacji) jest istotnym elementem legendy napoleońskiej. We wzniosłości widzimy ogólne kontury, pozbawione codzienności.
Srogosz, Tadeusz
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Money and federal autocracy: 1913 and the quiet inversion of the American constitutional order

open access: yesEconomic Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract The American Revolution affirmed that sovereignty inheres by nature in each Citizen, and collectively in the People. The Constitution completed a structure in which authority flowed from Citizens to their several State republics, and from the States to a Union holding only delegated powers. 1913 inverted that order.
James Turk
wiley   +1 more source

Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

The establishment of the Orange Monarchy in 1813-1815: a national myth

open access: yes, 2013
In November 1813 Napoleonic rule in the Dutch provinces collapsed after the defeat of the imperial armies near Leipzig. The Prince of Orange returned from England, where he had been exiled.
Lok, M.
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Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1443-1473, November 2026.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 397, Page 610-625, September 2026.
Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Game Theory in a Napoleonic Context: Establishing Napoleon's Utility and Application to the 1805 War of the Third Coalition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Game theory has existed in the fields of mathematics and economics for over 60 years. This thesis assesses its viability for use in the field of history, and in particular, in the Napoleonic era.
Ranger, Gareth A.
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