Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Consequences of Economic Warfare....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Continental System Revisited....Pages 25-39
French Representations of the Continental Blockade: Three Kinds of Narratives for and against....Pages 40-55
Russia and the Continental System: Trends in Russian Historiography....Pages 56-68
Speculations and Embargoes on the Grain Trade at the Time of the Revolutionary Wars ( 1792–1795)....Pages 69-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Continental System: A View from the Sea....Pages 83-97
The Kingdom of Italy and the Continental Blockade....Pages 98-113
Rhine River Commerce and the Continental System....Pages 114-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Trading Networks across the Blockades: Nathan Mayer Rothschild and His Commodity Trade during the Early Years of the Blockades....Pages 135-152
Smuggling and Blockade-Running during the Anglo-Danish War from 1807 to 1814....Pages 153-169
Defying the Continental System in the Periphery: Political Strategies and Protests by Norwegian Magnates....Pages 170-186
Economic Warfare, Organized Crime and the Collapse of Napoleon’s Empire....Pages 187-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Experiencing the Continental System in the Cities of the French Atlantic....Pages 207-222
Choices and Opportunities amid Economic Warfare: Strategic Decisions of the Business Elite in the Young Harbour Town of Antwerp during the Napoleonic Era....Pages 223-240
Riga Export Trade at the Time of the Continental Blockade (1807–1812)....Pages 241-258
Significance and Consequences of the Continental System for Napoleonic Holland, Especially for Amsterdam....Pages 259-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-290