ISBN1138324124 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1138324140 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781138324121 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781138324145 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
数量xix, 628 pages : ; 25 cm.
一般注記The nature of the Napoleonic Wars. The wheat and the chaff -- The First Consul -- The peace of Amiens -- The Napoleonic Wars -- An aptly named conflict -- The triumph of the French. A Nation-in-Arms? -- The contours of Napoleonic warfare -- Napoleon and France -- The grande armée -- The impact of genius -- A victorious synthesis -- The empire of the French. The image of reform -- The territories of empire -- Pressures for integration -- The implementation of reform -- The collaborators -- The rape of Europe -- An image flawed -- Resistance to the French. The rise of people's war -- The popular experience of empire -- Resistance -- Revolt -- The efficacy of resistance -- An exaggerated phenomenon? -- Perfidious Albion. An island set apart -- Facing up to Boney -- Booming to victory -- The challenge to the Old Order -- The reckoning -- The emulation of the French. Legitimism liberalised? -- Spain: the era of Godoy -- Austria: the failure of the Archduke Charles -- Russia: Alexander I, the unofficial committee and Speransky -- Prussia: the great reform movement -- The survival of the Old Order -- Revolution and the French. Transformation at the periphery -- Spain: mediaevalists and liberals -- Sweden: the downfall of the Vasas -- Sicily: the barons and the British -- Absolutism triumphant -- The wider world. Horizons near and far -- The Ottoman Empire: from Selim III to Mehmet II -- Latin America: the age of the liberators -- The West Indies: colonial conflict and slave revolt -- India: the brothers Wellesley and the Marathas -- The Caucasus: Russia and Persia at war, 1804-13 -- The United States, Canada and the War of 1812 -- Britannia rules the waves -- The downfall of the French. A people's war? -- Disintegration on the home front -- Disaster in Russia -- The War of Liberation -- Napoleon at bay -- The limits of the possible -- The impact of the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Wars and the idea of progress -- The pragmatic legitimists -- A society transformed? -- A new age of revolution? -- Into the nineteenth century -- Chronology -- Bibliographical essay.
"First edition published by Pearson Education Ltd. 1995"
"First edition published by Routledge 2013."