Napoleon's hundred days and the politics of legitimacy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katherine Astbury, Mark Philp.
• Editors: Astbury, Katherine; Philp, Mark
• Contents: Introduction; Kate Astbury and Mark Philp.- ​Part One: Napoleon's legitimacy in France.- The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism; Michael Sibalis.- Back by Popular Demand? The Problem of French Public Opinion during Napoleon's Hundred Days; John Dunne.- The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran facing Napoleon's Hundred Days; Alessandra Aloisi.- Part Two: Legitimacy beyond France.- German Central Europe and the Hundred Days; Leighton James.- Venetian élite reactions to the Hundred Days: news circulation and political commentaries between astonishment and fear; Valentina Dal Cin.- Napoleon's Hundred Days and the shaping of a new 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.- Part Three: Contesting Napoleon's legitimacy.- 'All the world's a stage & 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; Erica Buurman with Oskar Cox Jensen.- Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh newspaper Seren Gomer; Mary-Ann Constantine.- George Cruikshank and the British satirical response to the Hundred Days; John Moores.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 947.072092; History; Military history; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Military -- General; History -- Social History; European history; Military history; Social & cultural history; History -- Europe -- France; France-History; Europe-History-1492-; Civilization-History; France -- Politics and government -- 1814-1830
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319702087
• Related ISBNs: 9783319702070
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