Napoleon and His Collaborators

Napoleon and His Collaborators
Author: Isser Woloch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002
Genre: Dictatorship
ISBN: 9780393323412
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When we think of Napoleon, no names of trusty right-hand men jump to mind. Woloch (history, Columbia U., New York City) sets out to correct this in his study, which introduces the men that aided Napoleon's creation of a dictatorship. He does this through a series of narratives of key events and themes. He concludes with chapters on the routines of governance; difficult issues for Napoleon's liberal servitors of the un-liberal practices of preventive detention and censorship; and what happened to his minions following the Empire's collapse, the Bourbon Restoration, and Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The End of the Old Order

The End of the Old Order
Author: Frederick Kagan
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306816458
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Perhaps no person in history has dominated his or her own era as much as Napoleon. Despite his small physical stature, the shadow of Napoleon is cast like a colossus, compelling all who would look at that epoch to chart their course by reference to him. For this reason, most historical accounts of the Napoleonic era-and there are many-tell the same Napoleon-dominated story over and over again, or focus narrowly on special aspects of it. Frederick Kagan, distinguished historian and military policy expert, has tapped hitherto unused archival materials from Austria, Prussia, France, and Russia, to present the history of these years from the balanced perspective of all of the major players of Europe. In The End of the Old Order readers encounter the rulers, ministers, citizens, and subjects of Europe in all of their political and military activity-from the desk of the prime minister to the pen of the ambassador, from the map of the general to the rifle of the soldier. With clear and lively prose, Kagan guides the reader deftly through the intriguing and complex web of international politics and war. The End of the Old Order is the first volume in a new and comprehensive four-volume study of Napoleon and Europe. Each volume in the series will surprise readers with a dramatically different tapestry of early nineteenth-century personalities and events and will revise fundamentally our ages-old understanding of the wars that created modern Europe.

The New Regime

The New Regime
Author: Isser Woloch
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393313970
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Confident that they had broken with a discredited past, French revolutionaries after 1789 referred to pre-revolutionary times as the ancien regime (old regime). The National Assembly proclaimed the sovereignty of the people, grasping the reins of power and asserting the supremacy of law over all other interests. Even as the liberalism of 1789 collapsed into the Terror and then into the Napoleonic dictatorship, a new regime emerged at the juncture of state and civil society. The cycles of recrimination, hatred, and endemic local conflict unleashed by the Terror did not obliterate this new civic order. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study of three turbulent decades in French history, the eminent historian Isser Woloch examines some large questions: How did the French civic order change after 1789? What civic values animated the new regime; what policies did it adopt? What institutions did it establish, and how did they fare when carried into practice? Drawing on a variety of archival sources, Professor Woloch explains shifts in lawmaking and local authority, state intervention in village life, the creation of public primary schools, experiments in public assistance, a cycle of changes in the mechanisms of civil justice, the introduction of felony trials, and above all the imposition of military conscription. Unlike most accounts of the period, The New Regime moves outside Paris in search of the new civic order. Professor Woloch writes: "Imagine approaching a typical French town in 1798 or 1808 - the capital of one of the eighty-odd departments that the National Assembly created by redividing the nation's territory. The spires of a cathedral or the largest parish churches would stillcommand the horizon. But as one moved about the town, one could readily identify its civic institutions: the departmental administration (later the prefecture); the town hall or mairie; the local schools; several new courts or tribunals; the institutions of poor relief such as a

Europe Under Napoleon

Europe Under Napoleon
Author: Michael Broers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857735683
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Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped he stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an entirely new perspective – that of the ruled rather than the ruler. Michael Broers concentrates on the experience of the people of Europe – particularly the vast majority of Napoleon's subjects who were neither French nor willing participants in the great events of the period – during the dynamic but short-lived career of Napoleon, when half of the European content fell under his rule.

The Postwar Moment

The Postwar Moment
Author: Isser Woloch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300242689
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An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics.

Noble Savages

Noble Savages
Author: Napoleon A. Chagnon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0684855119
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Meteors that Enlighten the Earth

Meteors that Enlighten the Earth
Author: Matthew D. Zarzeczny
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443843105
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Napoleon promoted and honored great men throughout his reign. In addition to comparing himself to various great men, he famously established a Legion of Honor on 19 May 1802 to honor both civilians and soldiers, including non-ethnically French men. Napoleon not only created an Irish Legion in 1803 and later awarded William Lawless and John Tennent the Legion of Honour; he also gave them an Eagle with the inscription “L’Indépendence d’Irlande.” He awarded twenty-six of his generals the marshal’s baton from 1804 to 1815, and in 1806, he further memorialized his soldiers by deciding to erect a Temple to the Glory of the Great Army, modeled on Ancient designs. From 1806 to 1815, Napoleon had more men interred in the Panthéon in Paris than any other French leader before or after him. In works of art depicting himself, Napoleon had his artists allude to Caesar, Charlemagne, and even Moses. Although the Romans had their legions, Pantheon, and temples in Ancient times and the French monarchy had their marshals since at least 1190, Napoleon blended both Roman and French traditions to compare himself to great men who lived in ancient and medieval times and to recognize the achievements of those who lived alongside him in the nineteenth century. Analyzing Napoleon’s ever-changing personal cult of “great men,” and his recognition of contemporary “great men” who contributed to European or even human civilization and not just French civilization, is original. While work does exist on the French cults of Greco-Roman antiquity and of “great men” prior to 1800, Napoleon appears only fleetingly in other discussions of the cult of great men. None of the bourgeoning historiography adequately takes Napoleon’s place in the story of this cult into perspective. This book serves as a further exploration of the cult of great men, including its place in Napoleonic and European history and the alleged efforts of its members to enlighten the earth.

Napoleon

Napoleon
Author: Adam Zamoyski
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1541644557
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The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.

Knowledge Flows in a Global Age

Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
Author: John Krige
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2022-09-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226820378
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A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowledge and know-how at national borders. Rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out from center to periphery, they stress the human intervention that shapes how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed in transnational transactions to serve diverse interests, constraints, and environments. The chapters consider both what knowledge travels and how it travels across borders of varying permeability that impede or facilitate its movement. They look closely at a variety of platforms and objects of knowledge, from tangible commodities—like hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, seed banks, satellites and high-performance computers—to the more conceptual apparatuses of plant phenotype data and statistics. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North, tracking how knowledge moves along multiple paths across the borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, China, Angola, Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the United States and the United Kingdom. An important new work of transnational history, this collection recasts the way we understand and analyze knowledge circulation.

Napoleon the Communicator

Napoleon the Communicator
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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781532917523
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Emperor or dictator? Leader of the people or standard-bearer of the Bourgeois Revolution? As well as being a great military leader could he also be considered a statesman and visionary, a farsighted prophet and the founding father ahead of his time, of The European Union? Napoleon Bonaparte is such a multifaceted character that all these labels would fit him in addition to many more. Roberto Race expertly brings all these facets to light in this outstanding work. This book was published in Italy by Egea, the publishing wing of the Bocconi University. In his book Race puts Napoleon's peerless ability to engage public opinion, act upon it and obtain maximum results in the spotlight. How does a leader gain the people's consensus? What is his relationship with his collaborators? How does he create a synergy between charisma and team spirit? How does he maximize time and available communication channels to win both military and politic battles? How does he manipulate iconography, imagery and cultural references to increase his own personal power? How does he manage to detach himself from his great military defeat and come across as the winner in telling his life story? How does he manage to be the only loser in history who manages to overshadow his victors by putting across his artful account of his life recounted in Emanuel de Las Cases' and bequeathing it to future generations? Race answers all these questions in this evocative book which makes for pleasant reading. He demonstrates how Napoleon's deeds might be adapted as a benchmark for top class leadership both in business, politics and even everyday life. His work is further enhanced by the preface written by leading historian Luigi Mascilli about the Emperor. The post-face by Public Relations guru Mario Rodriguez provides a fitting finishing touch. Afterword by Charles Bonaparte, President of The European Federation of Napoleonic Cities and eldest of the last living branch of the Bonaparte family.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Author: Roberto Race is an advisor in corporate strategy and public affairs for multinational, family owned enterprises and medium-sized enterprises, working by side with CEOs and Board members. He also plays the role of Senior Advisor for Institutional Relations at the Borsa Italiana and ELITE (London Stock Exchange Group). In 2015 he founded The Ghost Team (www.theghostteam.com), which is considered to be the first international network for businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, diplomats, militaries, politicians, and public figures. Besides, Roberto is commited to cultural and social activities. He leads and promotes a number of think-tank foundations and charity organisations. www.robertorace.com