Napoleon's Empire

1. Front Matter

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2. 1 Napoleon and Beyond: Reshaping Power in Europe and the World

   1. Napoleon and Beyond: Reshaping Power in Europe and the World

      • Ute Planert

      Pages 1-20

   2. France, Western Europe and the Atlantic World. Napoleon’s Empire: European Politics in a Global Perspective

      • Annie Jourdan

      Pages 21-35

3. The Heart of the Empire: Histories and Historiographies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Unity and Fragmentation: Recent Research Trends on the ‘neuf départements réunis’

      • Brecht Deseure, Emmanuel Berger

      Pages 39-52

   3. The Napoleonic Period in Holland from a Dutch Historical Perspective

      • Johan Joor

      Pages 53-66

   4. Liberty in Times of Occupation: The Napoleonic Era in German Central Europe

      • Armin Owzar

      Pages 67-83

   5. Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography

      • Anna Maria Rao

      Pages 84-97

4. Re-Defining Imperial Order: The Ibero-Atlantic Area

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Against the Grain: Portugal and Its Empire in the Face of Napoleonic Invasions

      • Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves

      Pages 101-113

   3. The Peninsular War and Its Repercussions in France and Spain

      • Jean-René Aymes

      Pages 114-127

   4. ‘Perfidies, Robberies and Cruelties’: Latin America and Napoleon in the Age of Revolutions

      • Stefan Rinke

      Pages 128-141

   5. The Empire Overseas: The Illusion of Restoration

      • Bernard Gainot

      Pages 142-156

5. Restructuring the Baltic Sea: Scandinavia and Eastern Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. L’Empire d’Occident Faces the Russian Empire: Inter-Imperial Exchanges and Their Reflections in Historiography

      • Denis Sdvizkov

      Pages 159-172

   3. What Lies behind the Glory? A Balance Sheet of the Napoleonic Era in Poland

      • Jarosław Czubaty

      Pages 173-186

   4. The Danish State and the Napoleonic Wars

      • Rasmus Glenthøj

      Pages 187-198

   5. The Case of Norway: Domestic Developments and External Influences on the Periphery of Napoleonic Europe

      • Bård Frydenlund

      Pages 199-212

   6. Decline and Consolidation: Sweden, the Napoleonic Wars and Geopolitical Restructuring in Northern Europe

      • Martin Hårdstedt

      Pages 213-226

   7. Finland and the Napoleonic Empire

      • Max Engman

      Pages 227-238

The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale. When Napoleon died, the map of many areas had completely changed, making room for Russia's ascendency and Britain's rise to world power.

• Napoleon
• European history
• Nationalism
• French Revolution
• Napoleonic France
• Imperialism
• Austria
• Britain
• empire
• Europe
• European Politic
• European Politics
• France
• historiography
• history
• restoration
• revolution
• Russia
• Spain

“The book’s strengths is the extensive coverage of the epoch-making events in the Baltic region in the period which have generally been neglected in the English-language scholarship. … this fascinating and challenging collection of essays is a pleasure to read throughout.” (John Dunne, French History, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)

"Divided into four geographic sections inclusive of Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, South America and the Ottoman Empire, this volume opens and closes with two outstanding scholars who provide provocative presentations of Napoleon's European Empire, and each chapter inbetween offers interesting and important contributions to the multifaceted reach of the Napoleonic experiment. A brilliant collection on this rich era of transformation." - Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University, USA

"This excellent and original collection of twenty two essays by leading Napoleonic scholars analyses the global impact of the Napoleonic Empire. The articles very competently address the historiography and profound transformations and legacy the Napoleonic era launched throughout Europe, the Atlantic World, and the Middle East." Alexander Grab, University of Maine, USA

• University of Wuppertal, Germany

  Ute Planert

Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University, Canada Jean-René Aymes, Université Paris III, France Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil Emmanuel Berger, Université de Namur, Belgium Michael Broers, University of Oxford, UK Jaros?aw Czubaty, University of Warsaw, Poland Brecht Deseure, Universität Passau, Germany Max Engman, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Bård Frydenlund, University of Oslo, Norway Bernard Gainot, Université Paris I, France Rasmus Glenthøj, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Jean-Marcel Humbert, Independent Scholar, France Johan Joor, International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Armin Owzar, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), France Anna Maria Rao, University of Naples 'Federico II', Italy Stefan Rinke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Martin P. Schennach, University of Innsbruck, Austria Denis Sdvizkov, German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia Marko Trogrli?, University of Split, Croatia Peter Vodopivec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Josip Vrande?i?, University of Split, Croatia

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