Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions: The Napoleonic Wars in British and Hanoverian Memory, 1815–1915
Journal: The English Historical Review
Year: 2012

THE NAPOLEONic WARS iN BRiTiSH clear: despite having been won by coalitions, a substantial and fairly fresh body of publications concentrates on the two battles' emblematic function in German and British national mythology respectively. 10 in stark contrast, diplomatic historians have long accepted the centripetal quality of Allied coalition-building in 1813-15, which, in the words of Paul W. Schroeder, constituted nothing less than the turning point in the transformation of European internation