Napoléon Bonaparte / by Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869

Subjects: “…Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Legends.…”
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The coalition crumbles, Napoleon returns : the 1799 campaign in Italy and Switzerland. by Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831

Subjects: “…Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Military leadership.…”
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Napoleon's 1796 Italian campaign / by Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831

Subjects: “…Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Military leadership.…”
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Our friends the enemies : the occupation of France after Napoleon / by Haynes, Christine, 1970-

Subjects: “…Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Peace.…”
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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / by Wolff, Larry

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium -- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna -- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris -- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem -- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace -- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege -- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism -- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala -- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror -- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler -- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror -- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration -- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.…”
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Convoys : the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America. by KNIGHT, ROGER

Subjects: “…Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.…”
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The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland. by Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831

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El gobierno municipal de Granada durante la Guerra de la Independencia : ayuntamiento borbónico, municipalidad josefina y ayuntamiento liberal / by Prados García, Celia

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Escape from Rome : the failure of empire and the road to prosperity / by Scheidel, Walter, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…From Genghis Khan to Napoleon…”
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Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / by Afinogenov, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Making Russian Sinology in the age of Napoleon --…”
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Talleyrand : Virtuose der Macht 1754-1838 / by Willms, Johannes, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Titel; Zum Buch; Über den Autor; Impressum; Widmung; Inhalt; Vorwort; Erstes Buch: Im Dienst von Kirche und Revolution; Erstes Kapitel: Der Klumpfuß ist das Schicksal; Zweites Kapitel: Der Bischof als Revolutionär; Drittes Kapitel: Ein neuer Himmel, eine neue Erde; Viertes Kapitel: Der Charakterdarsteller als Statist; Zweites Buch: Vom Mentor zum Widersacher Napoleons; Fünftes Kapitel: «Ich habe Napoleon geliebt»; Sechstes Kapitel: Für Frankreich und gegen Napoleon; Siebtes Kapitel: «Der Anfang vom Ende»; Drittes Buch: Enttäuschte Illusionen; Achtes Kapitel: Im Kreis der Sieger…”
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Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx : the fight for a secular world of universal and equal rights / by Israel, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The Subversive Background of a Revolutionary Thinker -- Spinoza and the Origins of the Modern Revolutionary Consciousness (1650-1677) -- Orobio de Castro and the Enlightenment Myth of the Sephardic Universal Iconoclast -- The Destabilizing Reverberations of the Early Haskalah -- Maimon's Rebellion and Mendelssohn's Dilemma (1770-1800) -- David Nassy's New World Vistas (1770-1790) -- Zalkind Hourwitz (1751-1812) and the "Great Revolution" -- Jewish Revolutionaries and the Terror (1793-1794) -- Remaking the New World (1790-1820) -- The Dissident Jews of Felix Libertate (1787-1800) -- Napoleon and the Jews (1796-1815) -- Heine, Börne and the Post-Napoleonic Jewish Revolutionary Tradition (1810-1840) -- Moses Hess (1812-1875) and "The New Jerusalem" -- Karl Marx and the Socialist Revolution -- Conclusion: Jewish Revolutionaries (1650-1850).…”
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Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning / by Stević, Aleksandar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: On Taking Failure Seriously -- Lucien de Rubempré and the Politics of Usurpation in Post-Napoleonic France -- The Great Evasion: Dickensian Bildungsroman and the Logic of Dependency -- Charlotte Brontë and the Governess as a Liberal Subject -- Portrait of the Hero as an Ideologue, ca. 1885-1914 -- Madame de Guermantes and Other Animals: Proust and the Forms of Pleasure -- Epilogue: Historicizing the Bildungsroman.…”
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Military strategy : a global history / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of Republican strategies: 1775-1800 -- 5. Napoleon and others: 1790-1914 -- 6. The United States in the nineteenth century: 1812-98 -- 7. …”
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Morbid undercurrents : medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France / by Quinlan, Sean M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: morbid undercurrents-medicine and culture after the revolution -- Settings: the cultural world of medical practice, ca. 1750-1800 -- Medicine in the boudoir: the Marquis de Sade and medical understanding after the Reign of Terror -- Writing sexual difference: the natural history of women and gendered visions, ca. 1800 -- Seeing and knowing: readers and physiognomic science -- Sex and the citizen: reproductive manuals and fashionable readers under the Napoleonic state -- Sculpting ideal bodies: medicine, aesthetics, and desire in the artist's studio -- The mesmerist renaissance: medical undercurrents and testing the limits of scientific authority -- Physiology as literary genre: passions, taste, and social agendas under the Restoration and July monarchy -- Epilogue: medicine, writing, and subculture after the revolution.…”
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A theory of birds / by Alsous, Zaina, 1991-

Table of Contents: “…; Description de l'Égypte; Dead as a Dodo; Species-Being free-write; "Arab Making"; capture produces a series of remains; Southern Accent; On having begun; Violence; On Longing; a foreign woman; Translator's Essay; Naturalization; bird naming; Classification Is a Country; Ibis; I have this nightmare about fucking Napoleon; the subject of much debate; Public Botany; Birth Right; An incomplete archive of extinction; Being-Nothingness; In Paris, an Arab girl enters the museum…”
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A new naval history /

Table of Contents: “…Front matter; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I -- Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy; Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815; 'My dearest Tussy': coping with separation during the Napoleonic Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14); The Admiralty's gaze: disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet; Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseas; Salt water in the blood: race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41…”
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Der Wiener Kongress und seine Folgen- The Congress of Vienna and its Aftermaths : Großbritannien, Europa und der Friede im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert/ Great Britain, Europe and Peace...

Table of Contents: “…Towards a Geographical Analysis of Napoleonic Imperialism: Survival and Rupture within the Napoleonic Legacy -- An Empire of Mind and Matter -- Macro-Regions: the Inner and Outer Empires:the Ciceronian Empire or the Limits of the Polis? …”
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Journeys erased by time : the rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the Near East /

Table of Contents: “…-- by David Kennedy 18: 'Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient' said Napoleon Bonaparte -- by Heba Sheta Index.…”
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Heinrich von Kleist : literary and philosophical paradigms /

Table of Contents: “…High and Elaine Chen -- Anti-Napoleonic rage and the hope for a better future : Collin between Schiller and Kleist / Rebecca Stewart -- Fiat claritas et pereat opus : equity and the limits of rectification in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas / John T. …”
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