Napoleon's Atlantic
Subtitle: the impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic world
By: edited by Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym, and John Savage
Series: Atlantic world -- v. 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9789004181540
Description: Without pretending to provide a comprehensive treatment of Napoleon's Atlantic impact, this book traces the direct and indirect consequences of France's substantial post-1804/5 retreat from an Atlantic presence, and suggest how Napoleonic era world wars contributed to emerging post-imperial identities in the Americas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From "France's Cromwell" to "consummate brigand" : North Atlantic catholics and Napoleon, 1789-1815 / Luca Codignola; title: The Napoleonic Revolution and construction of the Brazilian empire / Roderick J. Barman; title: Napoleon and Louisiana : new Atlantic perspectives / Nathalie Dessens; title: Havana's aristocrats in the Spanish War of Independence, 1808-1814 / Dominique Goncalves; title: Napoleonic subversion and imperial defense in Central America, 1808-1812 / Timothy Hawkins; title: "The revolution against the French" : race and patriotism in the 1809 riot; title: In Havana / Matt D. Childs; title: Bernadotte, Bonaparte, and Louisiana : the last dream of a French empire in North America / Jean-Marc Olivier; title: 1810 : South American events in the press of the French empire / Felipe Angulo Jaramillo; title: From Indiano bureaucrats to Afrancesado politicians in the Spanish Bonapartist state : the cases of Azanza and Mata Linares / Victor Peralta Ruiz; title: Atlantic codes : the impact of Napoleonic law in the nineteenth-century : Atlantic world / John Savage; title: Spanish American Napoleons : the transformation of military officers into political leaders, Peru, 1790-1830 / Monica Ricketts; title: Officers of Napoleon's Grande Armee and church power in Central America, 1824-1826 / Christophe Belaubre; title: The Champ d'Asile : a Bonapartist colony in America? / Rafe Blaufarb; title: The French mission of 1816 : an academic and Napoleonic art in the Brazilian tropics / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; title: Conclusion / Nathalie Petiteau.