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The wars of Napoleon / Charles J. Esdaile.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esdaile, Charles J., author.
- Series:
- Modern wars in perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Military leadership.
- Napoleon.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
- Command of troops.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 628 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 The nature of the Napoleonic Wars p. 1
- The wheat and the chaff p. 1
- The First Consul p. 4
- The peace of Amiens p. 9
- The Napoleonic Wars p. 17
- An aptly named conflict p. 37
- 2 The triumph of the French p. 50
- A Nation-in-Arms? p. 50
- The contours of Napoleonic warfare p. 55
- Napoleon and France p. 69
- The grande armée p. 74
- The impact of genius p. 86
- A victorious synthesis p. 89
- 3 The empire of the French p. 103
- The image of reform p. 103
- The territories of empire p. 104
- Pressures for integration p. 108
- The implementation of reform p. 111
- The collaborators p. 129
- The rape of Europe p. 139
- An image flawed p. 148
- 4 Resistance to the French p. 164
- The rise of people's war p. 164
- The popular experience of empire p. 165
- Resistance p. 187
- Revolt p. 194
- The efficacy of resistance p. 218
- An exaggerated phenomenon? p. 225
- 5 Perfidious Albion p. 246
- An island set apart p. 246
- Facing up to Boney p. 247
- Booming to victory p. 261
- The challenge to the Old Order p. 265
- The reckoning p. 278
- 6 The emulation of the French p. 293
- Legitimism liberalised? p. 293
- Spain: the era of Godoy p. 294
- Austria: the failure of the Archduke Charles p. 297
- Russia: Alexander I, the unofficial committee and Speransky p. 308
- Prussia: the great reform movement p. 313
- The survival of the Old Order p. 326
- 7 Revolution and the French p. 335
- Transformation at the periphery p. 335
- Spain: mediaevalists and liberals p. 336
- Sweden: the downfall of the Vasas p. 352
- Sicily: the barons and the British p. 356
- Absolutism triumphant p. 364
- 8 The wider world p. 374
- Horizons near and far p. 374
- The Ottoman Empire: from Selim III to Mehmet II p. 375
- Latin America: the age of the liberators p. 390
- The West Indies: colonial conflict and slave revolt p. 404
- India: the brothers Wellesley and the Marathas p. 416
- The Caucasus: Russia and Persia at war, 1804-13 p. 422
- The United States, Canada and the War of 1812 p. 425
- Britannia rules the waves p. 432
- 9 The downfall of the French p. 449
- A people's war? p. 449
- Disintegration on the home front p. 450
- Disaster in Russia p. 456
- The War of Liberation p. 472
- Napoleon at bay p. 489
- The limits of the possible p. 496
- 10 The impact of the Napoleonic Wars p. 515
- The Napoleonic Wars and the idea of progress p. 515
- The pragmatic legitimists p. 516
- A society transformed? p. 527
- A new age of revolution? p. 538
- Into the nineteenth century p. 552.
- Notes:
- "First edition published by Pearson Education Ltd. 1995"
- "First edition published by Routledge 2013."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-597) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Esdaile, Charles J., author. Wars of Napoleon
- ISBN:
- 9781138324121
- 1138324124
- 9781138324145
- 1138324140
- OCLC:
- 1054265725
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