Napoleon's Empire (eBook)

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

Cover 1
Series 2
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 9
Notes on Contributors 10
Maps 16
1 Napoleon and Beyond: Reshaping Power in Europeand the World 20
2 France, Western Europe and the Atlantic World.Napoleon’s Empire: European Politics in a Global Perspective 40
Part I The Heart of the Empire:Histories and Historiographies 55
3 Unity and Fragmentation: Recent Research Trends on the‘ neuf départements réunis ’ 56
4 The Napoleonic Period in Holland from a Dutch HistoricalPerspective 70
5 Liberty in Times of Occupation: The Napoleonic Era inGerman Central Europe 84
6 Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography 101
Part II Re-Defi ning Imperial Order:The Ibero-Atlantic Area 115
7 Against the Grain: Portugal and Its Empire in the Face ofNapoleonic Invasions 116
8 The Peninsular War and Its Repercussions in France and Spain 129
9 ‘Perfidies, Robberies and Cruelties’: Latin America andNapoleon in the Age of Revolutions 143
10 The Empire Overseas: The Illusion of Restoration 157
Part III Restructuring the Baltic Sea:Scandinavia and Eastern Europe 172
11 L’Empire d’Occident Faces the Russian Empire:Inter-Imperial Exchanges and Their Reflectionsin Historiography 173
12 What Lies behind the Glory? A Balance Sheet of theNapoleonic Era in Poland 187
13 The Danish State and the Napoleonic Wars 201
14 The Case of Norway: Domestic Developments and ExternalInfluences on the Periphery of Napoleonic Europe 213
15 Decline and Consolidation: Sweden, the Napoleonic Wars andGeopolitical Restructuring in Northern Europe 227
16 Finland and the Napoleonic Empire 241
Part IV The Eastern Mediterranean Encounters Napoleon 253
17 ‘We Are Constituted as a Nation’: Austria in theEra of Napoleon 254
18 Illyrian Provinces from a Slovene Perspective:Myth and Reality 265
19 French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806–1814: Globalizing aLocal Geopolitics 277
20 Locating the Ottomans in Napoleon’s World 290
21 The Birth of Modern Egypt from Bonaparte’s Campaign toMuhammad ‘Alî ’s Seizure of Power: A Historiographical Essay 304
Part V Inside the Napoleonic Hegemony 318
22 Pride and Prejudice: The Napoleonic Empire through theEyes of Its Rulers 319
Index 330