Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System (eBook)

Anita Cerpinska, University of Latvia Geoffrey Ellis, Oxford University, UK Alan Forrest, University of York, UK Bård Frydenlund, University of Oslo, Norway Alexander Grab, University of Maine, USA Hilde Greefs, University of Antwerp, Belgium Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Silvia Marzagalli, University of Nice, France Pierrick Pourchasse, University of Bretagne Occidentale, France Michael Rowe, King's College London, UK Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Robert Mark Spaulding, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA Alexandre Tchoudinov, Institute of Universal History in Moscow, Russia Jann Markus Witt, Marineschule Mürwik (German Naval Academy)  

Cover 1
Series 2
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables 8
Series Preface 10
Acknowledgements 11
Notes on Contributors 13
General Maps 17
Introduction: Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Consequences of Economic Warfare 21
Part I: Looking Forward and Backward: The Historiography and Origins of the Continental System 43
1 The Continental System Revisited 44
2 French Representations of the Continental Blockade: Three Kinds of Narratives for and against 59
3 Russia and the Continental System: Trends in Russian Historiography 75
4 Speculations and Embargoes on the Grain Trade at the Time of the Revolutionary Wars ( 1792–1795) 88
Part II: Regional Approaches to the Practice and Consequences of the Continental System 100
5 The Continental System: A View from the Sea 101
6 The Kingdom of Italy and the Continental Blockade 116
7 Rhine River Commerce and the Continental System 132
Part III: Adapting to Economic Warfare: New Networks and Illicit Trade 151
8 Trading Networks across the Blockades: Nathan Mayer Rothschild and His Commodity Trade during the Early Years of the Blockades ( 1803–1808) 152
9 Smuggling and Blockade-Running during the Anglo–Danish War from 1807 to 1814 170
10 Defying the Continental System in the Periphery: Political Strategies and Protests by Norwegian Magnates 187
11 Economic Warfare, Organized Crime and the Collapse of Napoleon’s Empire 204
Part IV: Urban Experiences and the Napoleonic Continental System 221
12 Experiencing the Continental System in the Cities of the French Atlantic 222
13 Choices and Opportunities amid Economic Warfare: Strategic Decisions of the Business Elite in the Young Harbour Town of Antwerp during the Napoleonic Era 238
14 Riga Export Trade at the Time of the Continental Blockade ( 1807–1812) 256
15 Significance and Consequences of the Continental System for Napoleonic Holland, Especially for Amsterdam 274
Select Bibliography 292
Index 295