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9780199951062 (köites) |
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In this compelling, hugely ambitious, and comprehensive work, Alexander Mikaberidze offers a full accounting of the wars that began during the Revolutionary Period in France and lasted at least until Napoleon's defeat in 1815. Initially defensive, under Napoleon these wars became a means of empire-building on a global scale. Against the backdrop of war in Europe, European powers sought hegemony in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In terms of their effects, direct and indirect, the Napoleonic Wars were the most transformational world events between the Reformation and the First World War, and their repercussions endure to this day. Mikaberidze's book reveals the truly massive and cataclysmic scale of the Napoleonic Wars, showing how they encompassed political, cultural, diplomatic, and military events in almost every corner of the world. Moving region by region, it illuminates how geopolitical decision-making played out as these wars raged. In Egypt the Napoleonic Wars enabled the rise of Mahmud Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the wars led directly to the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812, setting the stage for the rapid expansion of the United States and its growing influence; in South America, they inspired national-liberation movements that ultimately ended Spanish colonial control. Everywhere, alliances shifted, monarchies were created and toppled, government rose and fell, boundaries were drawn, redrawn, and transgressed. The Napoleonic Wars left no part of the globe untouched. Deeply researched, authoritative, and skillfully narrated, The Napoleonic Wars is both a signal achievement and a monumental contribution to our understanding of a crucial period in world history. -- dust jacket |
Contents |
The revolutionary prelude -- The eighteenth-century international order -- The War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797 -- The making of La Grande Nation, 1979-1802 -- The Second Coalition War and the origins of the "Great Game" -- The rites of peace, 1801-1802 -- The road to war, 1802-1803 -- The rupture, 1803 -- The elephant against hte whale: France and Britain at war, 1803-1804 -- The emperor's conquest, 1805-1807 -- "War through other means": Europe and the continental system -- The struggle for Portugal and Spain, 1807-1812 -- The Grand Empire, 1807-1812 -- The Emperor's last triumph -- The northern question, 1807-1811 -- "An empire besieged": the Ottomans and Napoleonic Wars -- The Qajar Connection: Iran and the European Powers, 1804-1814 -- Britain's expeditionary warfare, 1805-1810 -- Britain's Eastern empire, 1800-1815 -- The Western question? Struggle for the Americas, 1808-1815 -- The turning point, 1812 -- The fall of the French empire -- The war and peace, 1814-1815 -- The aftermath of the great war |
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Napoleoni sõjad, 1799-1815
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sõjaajalugu
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geopoliitika
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19. sajandi algus
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More terms |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Influence |
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Geopolitics -- History -- 19th century |
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Military history, Modern -- 19th century |
UDC |
94 (44) "1803/1815"
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355.48 (44) "1803/1815"
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