The bee and the eagle : Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806

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The bee and the eagle : Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806

edited by Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson

(War, culture and society, 1750-1850)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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? Iena 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

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