Napoleon's Atlantic (The Atlantic World) [Hardcover]

Christophe Belaubre (Author), Jordana Dym (Author), John Savage (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9004181547 | ISBN-13: 978-9004181540 | Publication Date: September 10, 2010

This volume offers an introduction to recent scholarship on an understudied dimension of Napoleonic and Atlantic history, bringing together scholars working from Latin American cultural history to European diplomatic history. Without pretending to provide a comprehensive treatment of Napoleons Atlantic impact, fourteen chapters traces the direct and indirect consequences of Frances substantial post-1804/5 retreat from an Atlantic presence, and suggest how Napoleonic era world wars contributed to emergingpost-imperial identities in the Americas. As such, the book offers something new to scholars of Napoleon, by tracing familiar themes from military, legal and administrative modernization to artistic policies and cultural influences to the Americas. It also provides a framework for Atlantic World scholars who have tended to view the many strands of Napoleonic influence as unrelated fragments rather than elements of a complex mosaic of complex, diverse interrelatons.

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About the Author

Christophe Belaubre is a current member of CNRS FRAMESPA UMR. He has published several book chapters in France, the United States, and El Salvador, and articles in the following journals: Revue dHistoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Mesoamrica, Tierra Firma, and Anuario IHES. He is co-editor of Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with J. Dym, 27). Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and Director of Latin American Studies at Skidmore College. She is author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839 (26), co-editor with Karl Offen of Mapping Latin America (211), and has published articles and book chapters in the US, Mexico, Spain and France.John Savage is associate professor of Modern European and Atlantic World history at Lehigh University. He is currently preparing a book on colonial resistance to the Napoleonic legal codes in the French Caribbean in the early nineteenth century.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 324 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (September 10, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004181547
• ISBN-13: 978-9004181540
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,334,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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