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Book Napoleon I in the mirror of caricature

Download or read book Napoleon I in the mirror of caricature written by Hans Peter Mathis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleon I in the mirror of caricature

Download or read book Napoleon I in the mirror of caricature written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleon in Caricature 1795 1821

Download or read book Napoleon in Caricature 1795 1821 written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleon and His Collaborators

Download or read book Napoleon and His Collaborators written by Isser Woloch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of Napoleon, no names of trusty right-hand men jump to mind. Woloch (history, Columbia U., New York City) sets out to correct this in his study, which introduces the men that aided Napoleon's creation of a dictatorship. He does this through a series of narratives of key events and themes. He concludes with chapters on the routines of governance; difficult issues for Napoleon's liberal servitors of the un-liberal practices of preventive detention and censorship; and what happened to his minions following the Empire's collapse, the Bourbon Restoration, and Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Book Romanticism and Caricature

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  • Author : Ian Haywood
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1107044219
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Romanticism and Caricature written by Ian Haywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.

Book Napoleon and British Song  1797 1822

Download or read book Napoleon and British Song 1797 1822 written by Oskar Cox Jensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself.

Book Visualizing the Revolution

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  • Author : Rolf Reichardt
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781861893123
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Visualizing the Revolution written by Rolf Reichardt and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore the complex, many-faceted visual culture of the French Revolution, which took place in a period characterised by the creation of a new visual language steeped in metaphor, symbol and allegory.

Book Napoleon s Chicken Marengo

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  • Author : Andrew Uffindell
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 1844683885
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Napoleon s Chicken Marengo written by Andrew Uffindell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable work tells the story of Chicken Marengo, and cuts through the tangle of myths that has sprung up around it. Supposedly created on the evening of Napoleons victory at Marengo, the dish rapidly conquered Paris, and became a renowned symbol of French haute cuisine.The author sets the dish in its context explaining the nail-biting drama of Napoleons Marengo campaign and the remarkable frenzy of rejoicing unleashed in Paris by the news of his victory. The author argues that the dish is part of a wider myth that Napoleon spun around the battle itself. Uncomfortably aware of just how close he had come to disaster, he rewrote the official account of Marengo. Determined to exploit the political impact of the victory to the full, he portrayed it as a masterly maneuver, rather than a near-defeat salvaged largely by luck.Napoleons Chicken Marengo demonstrates the persistency of popular myth in shaping perceptions of pivotal events. Uffindel sheds startling light on Napoleons extraordinary and yet elusive character, and reveals just how effectively he spun a myth around the amount of food he ate in order to project a positive image of himself. A whole cast of other, unforgettable characters enlivens the story of Chicken Marengo, from Napoleons bickering generals, to celebrity chefs, colorful adventurers, acclaimed artists, fabulously wealthy eccentrics, and famous writers such as William Makepeace Thackeray.

Book Selected Papers

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  • Author : Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Selected Papers written by Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850 and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars  Volume 3  Experience  Culture and Memory

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars Volume 3 Experience Culture and Memory written by Alan Forrest and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the conflict left its mark on virtually every aspect of society. They reflect on the experience of the soldiers who fought in them, examining such matters as military morale, ideas of honour and masculinity, the treatment of wounds and the fate of prisoners-of-war; and they explore social issues such as the role of civilians, women's experience, trans-border encounters and the roots of armed resistance. They also demonstrates how the experience of war was inextricably linked to empire and the wider world. Individual chapters discuss the depiction of the Wars in literature and the arts and their lasting impact on European culture. The volume concludes by examining the memory of the Wars and their legacy for the nineteenth-century world.

Book Napoleon s Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

Download or read book Napoleon s Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy written by Katherine Astbury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return – known as ‘the flight of the eagle’ – gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo.

Book In a Persian Mirror

Download or read book In a Persian Mirror written by M. R. Ghanoonparvar and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals that these attitudes did not develop suddenly or inexplicably but rather evolved over more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact. Notable among the authors whose works Ghanoonparvar discusses are Sadeq Hedayat, M. A. Jamalzadeh, Hushang Golshiri, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Simin Daneshvar, Moniru Ravanipur, Sadeq Chubak, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehensible as we have believed them to be.

Book Napoleon

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  • Author : Philip Dwyer
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-04-19
  • ISBN : 1408891743
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Napoleon written by Philip Dwyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.

Book The New Napoleon

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  • Author : M. de Steel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book The New Napoleon written by M. de Steel and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Caricature

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  • Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Art of Caricature written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Autographic Mirror

Download or read book The Autographic Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: