Resisting Napoleon
Subtitle: the British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815
By: edited by Mark Philp.
Contributors: Philp, Mark.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Adversaries.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805.; Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France.; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Description: "The long war with Revolutionary France had a fundamental impact on British political culture. The most dramatic example of this is the mass mobilization of the British people in response to French invasion threats throughout the last years of the century but, most spectacularly, in the period of 1803-05, after the collapse of the Peace of Amiens, and the massing of invasion fleet by Napoleon."

"By bringing together historians of Britain and France to examine the dynamics of the conflict between the two nations in this period, this book measures its impact on their domestic political cultures, and its effect on their perceptions of each other. In so doing it will encourage scholars to examine in more detail aspects of popular mobilization which have hitherto been largely ignored, such as the resurgence of loyalism in 1803, and to see contributions in the light of the dual contexts of domestic political conflict and their war with each other. The book contributes both new detail to our understanding of the period and a better overall understanding of the complex place that each nation came to occupy in the consciousness of the other."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A tale of two conflicts : critiques of the British war effort, 1793-1815 / Philip Harling; title: The sea fencibles, loyalism, and the reach of the state / Nick Rogers; title: The defence of Manchester and Liverpool in 1803 : conflicts of loyalism, patriotism and the middle classes / Katrina Navickas; title: An insurrection of loyalty : the London volunteer regiments' response to the invasion threat / John Newman; title: In defence of Great Britain : Henry Addington, the Duke of York and military preparations against invasion by Napoléonic France, 1803-1804 / Charles John Fedorak; title: "This soldierlike danger" : the trial of William Blake for sedition / Jon Mee and M.C. Crosby; title: John Bull in a dream : fear and fantasy in the visual satires of 1803 / Alexandra Franklin; title: Britain and the black legend : the genesis of the anti-Napoleonic myth / Simon Burrows; title: The cheap defence of nations : monuments and propaganda / Holger Hoock; title: Music and politics; title: Anti-English discourse among the authorities : myths and realities in the northern départements / Annie Crepin and Vincent Cuvilliers; title: An inundation from our shores : travelling across the channel around the Peace of Amiens / Renaud Morieux.