Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
By: Janet M. Hartley, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Paul Keenan, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781137527998
Subjects: Military History; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Description: Russia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work demonstrates the importance of this period both for Russia and for all of Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: International relations in the Napoleonic era: the long view / Dominic Lieven; title: Cicero and Aristotle: cultural imperialism and the Napoleonic geography of empire / Michael Broers; title: Napoleon's vision of empire and the decision to invade Russia / Alan Forrest; title: Russian perspectives on European order: review of the year 1819 / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter; title: Alexander I, Talleyrand and France's future in 1814 / Marie-Pierre Rey; title: Russia and Britain in international relations in the period 1807-1812 / Aleksandr A. Orlov; title: Russia, Napoleon and the threat to British India / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; title: Factions and in-fighting among Russian generals in the 1812 era / Viktor M. Bezotosnyi; title: The "Maid of Orleans" of the Russian army: Prince Eugen of Württemberg in the Napoleonic Wars / Denis A. Sdvizhkov; title: The finances of the Russian empire in the period of the patriotic war of 1812 and of the foreign campaigns of the Russian army / Liudmila P. Marnei; title: Patriotism in the provinces in 1812: volunteers and donations / Janet M. Hartley; title: The Russian imperial court and victory celebrations during the early Napoleonic wars / Paul Keenan; title: Orthodox Russia against "godless" France: the Russian church and the "holy war" of 1812 / Liubov Melnikova; title: The enemy behind our backs? The occupation of the Duchy of Warsaw 1813-1814 / Andrzej Nieuwazny; title: Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars in the ruling elite of the Russian empire / Grigorii Bibikov; title: The 1812 war and the civilizing process in Russia / Alexander M. Martin; title: The patriotic war of 1812 in the commemorative practices and historical memory of Russian society from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries / Tatiana Saburova.