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Nov 9, 2021 · We don’t usually underestimate the impact of the Napoleonic Wars. In recent years in particular, the period from 1792 to 1815 has been the subject of a renewed focus on the transformative force of large-scale mass warfare as historians of all stripes have charted the upending of societal structures, the redrawing of political maps, the repercussions in culture and the arts, and the changes ...
Summary. The Napoleonic Wars marked one of the deepest crises in the history of the Roman Church throughout Europe. For Catholicism, the experiences of the 1790s were cataclysmic. In France, Gallicanism was riven by a schism between those clerics who supported the Revolution of 1789 and those who had remained loyal to Rome.
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- Michael Broers
- Peter Hicks
- Contents
- Jean-René Aymes
Professor of Western European History, University of Oxford, UK
Historian, International Affairs Manager, Fondation Napoléon, France, and Visiting Professor, Bath University, UK and
Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Map Introduction: Napoleon, His Empire, Our Europe and the ‘New Napoleonic History’ Michael Broers Part I
The Peninsular War has one specific, fundamental negative characteristic which sets it apart from the wars of the ancien régime: it was not a confronta-tion between two monarchs or two regular armies engaged in pitched battle. At the outset of the conflict, the Supreme Junta of Granada published a proclamation concerning Spanish resistance to Napol...
Mar 2, 2024 · War of the Second Coalition. In 1798, French officials came up with a plan to assert a French presence in Egypt. With Napoleon leading, the Egyptian expedition began wonderfully, capturing Malta, Alexandria, and the Nile Delta. The political climate in France was shifting and impossible to foretell.
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars provides a comprehensive guide to the Napoleonic Wars and weaves together the four strands – military, naval, economic, and diplomatic - that intertwined to make up one of the greatest conflicts in history. Written by a team of the leading Napoleonic scholars, this volume provides an ...
- G.J. Zuijdwegt
May 3, 2018 · Abstract. From 1792 to 1815 raged what is sometimes called the “first total war.”. The political turmoil unleashed by the French Revolution soon spilled over into the sphere of international relations, where it ignited hostilities not only in Europe but also other parts of the world. The Napoleonic Wars proper commenced after Napoleon ...
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change – particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy – and are frequently viewed in these places as the starting ...
