The Napoleonic Wars: A Global HistoryAusterlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world. |
Contents
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The EighteenthCentury International Order | 18 |
The War of the First Coalition 17921797 | 44 |
The Making of La Grande Nation 17971802 | 68 |
The Second Coalition War and the Origins of the Great Game | 83 |
The Rites of Peace 18011802 | 104 |
The Road to War 18021803 | 122 |
The Rupture 1803 | 148 |
The Northern Question 18071811 | 332 |
An Empire Besieged The Ottomans and the Napoleonic Wars | 368 |
The Qajar Connection Iran and the European Powers 18041814 | 423 |
Britains Expeditionary Warfare 18051810 | 449 |
Britains Eastern Empire 18001815 | 469 |
The Western Question? Struggle for the Americas 18081815 | 501 |
The Turning Point 1812 | 525 |
The Fall of the French Empire | 552 |
The Elephant Against the Whale France and Britain at War 18031804 | 173 |
The Emperors Conquest 18051807 | 188 |
War Through Other Means Europe and the Continental System | 228 |
The Struggle for Portugal and Spain 18071812 | 242 |
The Grand Empire 18071812 | 282 |
The Emperors Last Triumph | 307 |
The War and Peace 18141815 | 591 |
The Aftermath of the Great War | 615 |
Notes | 643 |
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