Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 372 p)
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maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0198207557
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9780198207559
Content:
In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the European revolutions. The book's central themes are posed by the period of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy was the Mediterranean frontier of Napoleon's continental empire. The tensions between Naples and Paris made this an important chapter in the history of that empire andrevealed the deeper contradictions on which it was founded. But the brief interlude of Napoleonic rule later came to
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Maps; Introduction: Naples, Napoleon, and the Origins of the Two Italies; PART I: ABSOLUTIST NAPLES; PART II: NAPOLEONIC NAPLES; PART III: RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION; Conclusion: States of Insecurity; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Naples and Napoleon : Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860
Language:
English
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