Napoleon's hundred days and the politics of legitimacy / Katherine Astbury, Mark Philp, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Astbury, Katherine, editor.

Philp, Mark, editor.

Series:

War, culture and society, 1750-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815.

Napoleon.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.

France--Politics and government--1814.

France.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvii, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon's dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return - known as 'the flight of the eagle' - gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Napoleon's Legitimacy in France

The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism in Paris / Michael Sibalis

Back by Popular Demand? Historians and the Problem of Public Opinion During Napoleon's Hundred Days / John Dunne

The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran Facing Napoleon's Hundred Days / Alessandra Aloisi

pt. II Legitimacy Beyond France

German Central Europe and the Hundred Days / Leighton S. James

Venetian Elite Reactions to the Hundred Days: News Circulation and Political Commentaries / Valentina Dal Cin

Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Shaping of a Dutch Identity / Lotte Jensen

"A People Grown Old in Revolutions": Conflicting Temporalities and Distrust in 1815 Italy / Martina Piperno

The Hundred Days, the Congress of Vienna and the Atlantic Slave Trade / Alan Forrest

pt. III Contesting Napoleon's Legitimacy

"All the World's a Stage and All the Men Are Merely Players": Theatre-Going in London During the Hundred Days / Susan Valladares

Dancing the "Waterloo Waltz": Commemorations of the Hundred Days

Parallels in British Social Dance and Song / Oskar Cox Jensen

Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh Newspaper Seven Gomer / Mary Ann Constantine

George Cruikshank and the British Satirical Response to the Hundred Days / John Moores.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319702070

3319702076

OCLC:

1006302678