Aaslestad / Joor Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System

Local, Regional and European Experiences
2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-34557-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 305 Seiten

Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers and their strategies to adapt to trade restrictions.  

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)  

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aaslestad, K.

Joor, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Series;2
3;Title;4
4;Copyright;5
5;Contents;6
6;List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables;8
7;Series Preface;10
8;Acknowledgements;11
9;Notes on Contributors;13
10;General Maps;17
11;Introduction: Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Consequences of Economic Warfare;21
12;Part I: Looking Forward and Backward: The Historiography and Origins of the Continental System;43
12.1;1 The Continental System Revisited;44
12.2;2 French Representations of the Continental Blockade: Three Kinds of Narratives for and against;59
12.3;3 Russia and the Continental System: Trends in Russian Historiography;75
12.4;4 Speculations and Embargoes on the Grain Trade at the Time of the Revolutionary Wars ( 1792–1795);88
13;Part II: Regional Approaches to the Practice and Consequences of the Continental System;100
13.1;5 The Continental System: A View from the Sea;101
13.2;6 The Kingdom of Italy and the Continental Blockade;116
13.3;7 Rhine River Commerce and the Continental System;132
14;Part III: Adapting to Economic Warfare: New Networks and Illicit Trade;151
14.1;8 Trading Networks across the Blockades: Nathan Mayer Rothschild and His Commodity Trade during the Early Years of the Blockades ( 1803–1808);152
14.2;9 Smuggling and Blockade-Running during the Anglo–Danish War from 1807 to 1814;170
14.3;10 Defying the Continental System in the Periphery: Political Strategies and Protests by Norwegian Magnates;187
14.4;11 Economic Warfare, Organized Crime and the Collapse of Napoleon’s Empire;204
15;Part IV: Urban Experiences and the Napoleonic Continental System;221
15.1;12 Experiencing the Continental System in the Cities of the French Atlantic;222
15.2;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
15.3;14 Riga Export Trade at the Time of the Continental Blockade ( 1807–1812);256
15.4;15 Significance and Consequences of the Continental System for Napoleonic Holland, Especially for Amsterdam;274
16;Select Bibliography;292
17;Index;295