New PDF release: Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era (Historical

By George F. Nafziger

the writer covers the most explosive and most enjoyable classes of worldwide historical past, spanning the time from the eruption of the French Revolution in the course of the finish of the Napoleonic wars (1789-1815). those twenty-six years of heritage observed the start of nationalism and Western democracy, financial challenge and political convulsion, the expansion of industrialism, the dying of old traditions, and the beginning and break-up of empire. It used to be the time of Napoleon, who gave his identify to this era of large switch: the interval during which the roots of contemporary Europe have been planted. This paintings is meant as a vast evaluate, devoting a majority of its awareness to the army and political occasions and personalities of the interval, whereas additionally surveying the main creative, social and cultural occasions and personalities that shaped this period.

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