The Napoleonic Wars : a global history /
Mikaberidze, Alexander,author.
"In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The revolutionary prelude -- The eighteenth-century international order -- The war of the first coalition, 1792-1797 -- The making of la grande nation, 1797-1802 -- The second coalition war and the origins of the "great game" -- The rites of peace, 1801-1802 -- The road to war, 1802-1803 -- The rupture, 1803 -- The elephant against the whale: France and Britain at war, 1803-1804 -- The emperor's conquest, 1805-1807 -- "War through other means": Europe and the continental system -- The struggle for Portugal and Spain, 1807-1812 -- The grand empire, 1807-1812 -- The emperor's last triumph -- The Northern question, 1807-1811 -- "An empire besieged": the Ottomans and the Napoleonic wars -- The Qajar connection: Iran and the European powers, 1804-1814 -- Britain's expeditionary warfare, 1805-1810 -- Britain's Eastern empire, 1800-1815 -- The Western question? Struggle for the Americas, 1808-1815 -- The turning point, 1812 -- The fall of the French empire -- The war and peace, 1814-1815 -- The aftermath of the Great War.
"In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control."
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Geopolitics
Military history, Modern