From the Napoleonic empire to the Age of Empire : empire after the emperor

From the Napoleonic empire to the Age of Empire : empire after the emperor / Thomas Dodman, Aurélien Lignereux, editors.

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing linkor at least an important chainin the global and longue dure history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the transnational historiographical turn, vastly ex...

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Other Authors: Dodman, Thomas (Editor), Lignereux, Aurélien (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:War, culture and society, 1750-1850.
Subjects:
1799-1899
History, Modern > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
History, Modern
Imperialism
France > History > Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
France
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: Opening up the Napoleonic Empire
  • Finding a New Historiographical Frame for a New Historical Object
  • Setting Sail on the Napoleonic Empire: New Directions
  • Part I: The Napoleonic Empire, Between Imperialisms
  • Joseph Eschassériaux: From New Colonisation to Imperial Diplomacy-Hypotheses as to a Reconversion (1797-1803)
  • The "Eschassériaux Moment": 1797
  • Colonisation, Civilisation and Nation: A Project for Europe
  • Permanence and Change
  • Conclusion
  • Napoleon of Arabia? Piracy in the Persian Gulf, the French Threat to India, and British Imperial Responses
  • A Quiet Backwater? The East India Company and Gulf Piracy at the End of the Eighteenth Century
  • A Great Fear? The French Expedition in Egypt and Napoleon's Endeavours in Arabia
  • A Persisting French Threat on India? Franco-British Encroachments in Persia
  • The Jacobin and the Mameluke: Islam, Race and Political Culture at the End of Empire
  • The Making of the Mameluke as a Political Category
  • Mamelukes in Political Transition
  • Chateaubriand's Mamelukes
  • The Restoration Mameluke
  • Korais's Greece and Napoleon's Empire: The Egyptian Campaign, Race Science, and the Europeanization an Idea
  • Korais and France, Korais in France
  • The Egyptian Campaign, Civilization, and Race Science
  • After Empire: Korais's Greece and the Greek War of Independence
  • Conclusion
  • The Scientific Appropriation of the World: The Imperial Legacy in Naval Officer Training
  • Officer Training: The True Napoleonic Legacy for the Navy
  • Reappropriating an Imperial Education
  • Enhancing Scientific Capabilities
  • Scientific Abilities in the Service of Objectives of French Power
  • Diplomacy, Prospecting, Military Campaigns
  • Aimable Constant Jehenne: A "Poster Boy" for the ESM
  • Conclusion
  • Free Ports, Free Trade, Freedom: Napoleon's Manifold Legacy in Institutions and Images
  • Unfulfilled Dreams: Napoleon and a Global System of Free Ports
  • Unimaginable Entanglements between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean
  • Unexpected Legacies: By Way of Conclusion
  • Part II: Individual Trajectories and Imperial Conversions
  • Tracing the Colonial Careers of Two Former Napoleonic Officials: Godert van der Capellen and Bernard Besier
  • The van der Capellen and Besier Families
  • Napoleonic Period in the Netherlands
  • Indonesian Imperial Careers
  • The Java War (1825-1830)
  • Conclusions: Traces of Napoleonic Empire-Building?
  • French Colonial Governors in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Miniature Emperors?
  • More of a Napoleonic than an Imperial Crucible
  • A Napoleonic Officer?
  • Napoleonic or Imperial Officials in Colonial Action?

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