Napoleon's hundred days and the politics of legitimacy / Katherine Astbury, Mark Philp, editors.
"This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon's dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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| Series: | War, culture and society, 1750-1850.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I Napoleon's Legitimacy in France
- The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism in Paris / Michael Sibalis
- Back by Popular Demand? Historians and the Problem of Public Opinion During Napoleon's Hundred Days / John Dunne
- The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran Facing Napoleon's Hundred Days / Alessandra Aloisi
- pt. II Legitimacy Beyond France
- German Central Europe and the Hundred Days / Leighton S. James
- Venetian Elite Reactions to the Hundred Days: News Circulation and Political Commentaries / Valentina Dal Cin
- Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Shaping of a Dutch Identity / Lotte Jensen
- "A People Grown Old in Revolutions": Conflicting Temporalities and Distrust in 1815 Italy / Martina Piperno
- The Hundred Days, the Congress of Vienna and the Atlantic Slave Trade / Alan Forrest
- pt. III Contesting Napoleon's Legitimacy
- "All the World's a Stage and All the Men Are Merely Players": Theatre-Going in London During the Hundred Days / Susan Valladares
- Dancing the "Waterloo Waltz": Commemorations of the Hundred Days
- Parallels in British Social Dance and Song / Oskar Cox Jensen
- Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh Newspaper Seven Gomer / Mary Ann Constantine
- George Cruikshank and the British Satirical Response to the Hundred Days / John Moores.