The Napoleonic Empire (Studies in European History)

by Geoffrey Ellis (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $34.25

  Geoffrey Ellis offers a synthesis of research into the aims and effects of Napoleonic rule in France and in conquered Europe. Thoroughly revised, this second edition provides much more extensive coverage of Napoleon's treatment of the annexed lands and subject states of the Grand Empire .

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.28

  Was Napolean the heir of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles?. How radical and how lasting was his achievement in France and the Grand Empire more widely?. This book offers a synthesis of the central issues raised in that debate and critically assesses findings of historians during the past. Beginning with Napoleon's inheritance, and ending with his legacy, the author balances the conflicting evidence for continuity or changes, for the conservative or innovatory effects of Napoleonic rule, over the whole passage from the Revolutionary upheaval to the height of his Empire. He deals in turn with the civil and military foundations of the Napoleonic state, and looks beyond France to include the wars of conquest and the treatment of the annexed lands and subject states.