The Bee and the Eagle

Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-28437-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forrest, Alan

Wilson, Peter H

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maps Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 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? Iéna 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 'The Germans are Hydrophobes': Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity; M.Rapport The Response to Napoleon and German Nationalism; J.Breuilly Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter H. Wilson is GF Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He co-edits the , and specialises in early modern German History.