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Forrest, Alan I.

 

  • The bee and the eagle[electronic resource] :Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 940.2/72
    Title/Author: The bee and the eagle : Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 // edited by Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson.
    other author: Forrest, Alan I.
    Published: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    Description: xvii, 295 p. : : ill., maps ;; 23 cm.
    Subject: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Germany.
    Subject: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Austria.
    Subject: France - Social life and customs - 21st century.
    Subject: Holy Roman Empire - History - 1517-1648.
    ISBN: 9780230236738
    ISBN: 0230236731
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction / Alan Forrest and P.H.Wilson -- The Meaning of Empire in Central Europe / P.H.Wilson -- The Political Culture of the Holy Roman Empire on the Eve of its Destruction / M.Rowe -- The Napoleonic Empire / M.Broers -- Political Culture of the Napoleonic Empire / W.Doyle -- A Matter of Survival: Bavaria Becomes a Kingdom / M.Kaiser -- Napoleon as Monarch: A Political Evolution / A.Forrest -- Napoleon and the Abolition of Feudalism / R.Blaufarb -- The Prussian Army in the Jena Campaign / C.Telp -- Napoleon's Second Sacre? Ina and the Ceremonial Translation of Frederick the Great's Insignia in 1807 / T.Biskup -- "Desperation to the Utmost": The Defeat of 1806 and the French Occupation in Prussian Experience and Perception / K.Hagemann -- Legends of the Allied Invasions and Occupations of Eastern France, 1792-1815 / D.Hopkin -- "TheGermans are Hydrophobes": Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity / M.Rapport -- The Response to Napoleon and German Nationalism / J.Breuilly.
    [NT 15000229]: The year 2006 marked the bicentenary of two seminal events in Germanand French history: the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire that had encompassed much of Europe for over a millennium, and its replacement by a new, French-sponsored political order. The juxtaposition of the twoempires in 1806 offers an ideal opportunity for a comparative approachto the transition towards modernity and therole of France and Germanyin the construction of Europe. The rapidity of these changes suggests a major turning point, to some even the birth of modernity itself, as Napoleon, the inheritor of the dynamic, rationalising traditions of the French Revolution, triumphed over a socio-political order that had its roots in the early middle ages and claimed direct descent from the ancient Roman Empire. This volume indicates that the contrast is considerably more complex than is commonly assumed, and offers the first comparative treatment of the key themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.
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