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Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

Hardcover

Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

French HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3319702076
ISBN13: 9783319702070
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 20 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Introduction; Kate Astbury and Mark Philp.- ​Part One: Napoleon's legitimacy in France.- The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism; Michael Sibalis.- Back by Popular Demand? The Problem of French Public Opinion during Napoleon's Hundred Days; John Dunne.- The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran facing Napoleon's Hundred Days; Alessandra Aloisi.- Part Two: Legitimacy beyond France.- German Central Europe and the Hundred Days; Leighton James.- Venetian élite reactions to the Hundred Days: news circulation and political commentaries between astonishment and fear; Valentina Dal Cin.- Napoleon's Hundred Days and the shaping of a new Dutch Identity; Lotte Jensen.- 'A People Grown Old in Revolutions': Conflicting Temporalities and Distrust in 1815 Italy; Martina Piperno.- The Hundred Days, the Congress of Vienna and the Atlantic Slave Trade; Alan Forrest.- Part Three: Contesting Napoleon's legitimacy.- 'All the world's a stage & all the men are merely players': theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days; Susan Valladares.- Dancing the 'Waterloo Waltz': Commemorations of the Hundred Days: Parallels in British Social Dance and Song; Erica Buurman with Oskar Cox Jensen.- Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh newspaper Seren Gomer; Mary-Ann Constantine.- George Cruikshank and the British satirical response to the Hundred Days; John Moores.- Index

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