Publications : 29
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PublicationGraeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century: Case Studies
This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This series of case studies covers a broad range of source material, and it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, […]
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PublicationThe Waterloo Letters: A Selection from Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk
From the publishers: In July 1815, just six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, Sir Walter Scott set out for Flanders to visit the battlefield. He paid for the trip by writing Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, a series of letters written by ‘Paul’ to various members of his fictitious family. This ebook is a […]
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PublicationClassical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House
Publisher’s presentation: “This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), best known for originating the plans for the United States Capitol. The furniture was made in Philadelphia for one of the city’s finest houses—the home of William and Mary Wilcocks Waln, […]
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PublicationThe Spectacular Second Empire, 1852-1870
This is the exhibition catalogue of the Musée d’Orsay’s 30th anniversary exhibition dedicated to the art of the Second Empire and the Imperial Family. It exists in both English and in French
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PublicationRampage at Waterloo (Battlesaurus #1)
From the publisher: * WINNER of the Young Adult section of the New Zealand Book Children’s Awards * Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards * A Junior Library Guild Selection Fifteen year old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother […]
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PublicationLove Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars
From the publisher: “Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to speak, which were written by major authors who inherited this Enlightenment bearing, responded to the emerging concepts of love found in novels and philosophical essays. Love among […]
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PublicationGuibert: Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée
From the publisher: If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the […]
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PublicationAnn Ayre Hely, a Crimean War Nurse from Ravenstone, Leicestershire
From the publishers: Ann Ayre Hely was born in the early 19th century in Ravenstone, Leicestershire. After the death of her husband, she volunteered to become a nurse in Turkey during the Crimean War. This is her story but will also be of interest to anyone interested in the Crimean war and the history of […]
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PublicationA Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
From the publishers: Alexandra Deutsch literally “unpacks” Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity. In addition to letters and portraits, Deutsch found bits […]
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PublicationGermaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
As students of Napoleonic history, we are led to Germaine de Stael via the threatened (and threatening) gaze of the First Consul. And yet, perhaps, she more than any of her contemporaries stands for the sort of middle-ground, monarchic politics that Napoleon himself would subsequently embody. In this stimulating study of the crucial decade of […]