Napoleon’s Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Napoleon and Beyond: Reshaping Power in Europe and the World....Pages 1-20
France, Western Europe and the Atlantic World. Napoleon’s Empire: European Politics in a Global Perspective....Pages 21-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Unity and Fragmentation: Recent Research Trends on the ‘neuf départements réunis’....Pages 39-52
The Napoleonic Period in Holland from a Dutch Historical Perspective....Pages 53-66
Liberty in Times of Occupation: The Napoleonic Era in German Central Europe....Pages 67-83
Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography....Pages 84-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Against the Grain: Portugal and Its Empire in the Face of Napoleonic Invasions....Pages 101-113
The Peninsular War and Its Repercussions in France and Spain....Pages 114-127
‘Perfidies, Robberies and Cruelties’: Latin America and Napoleon in the Age of Revolutions....Pages 128-141
The Empire Overseas: The Illusion of Restoration....Pages 142-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
L’Empire d’Occident Faces the Russian Empire: Inter-Imperial Exchanges and Their Reflections in Historiography....Pages 159-172
What Lies behind the Glory? A Balance Sheet of the Napoleonic Era in Poland....Pages 173-186
The Danish State and the Napoleonic Wars....Pages 187-198
The Case of Norway: Domestic Developments and External Influences on the Periphery of Napoleonic Europe....Pages 199-212
Decline and Consolidation: Sweden, the Napoleonic Wars and Geopolitical Restructuring in Northern Europe....Pages 213-226
Finland and the Napoleonic Empire....Pages 227-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
‘We Are Constituted as a Nation’: Austria in the Era of Napoleon....Pages 241-251
Illyrian Provinces from a Slovene Perspective: Myth and Reality....Pages 252-263
French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806–1814: Globalizing a Local Geopolitics....Pages 264-276
Locating the Ottomans in Napoleon’s World....Pages 277-290
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
The Birth of Modern Egypt from Bonaparte’s Campaign to Muhammad ‘Alî’s Seizure of Power: A Historiographical Essay....Pages 291-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Pride and Prejudice: The Napoleonic Empire through the Eyes of Its Rulers....Pages 307-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-334