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The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoleon III
\"A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians. Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon) overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. In the first full biography of Napoleon III by an American historian, Strauss-Schom uses his years of primary source research to explore the major cultural, sociological, economical, financial, international, and militaristic long-lasting effects of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon's achievements have been mixed and confusing, even to historians. He completely revolutionized the infrastructure of the state and the economy, but at the price of financial scandals of imperial proportions. In an age when \"colonialism\" was expanding, Louis-Napoleon's colonial designs were both praised by the emperor's party and the French military and resisted by the socialists. He expanded the nation's railways to match those of England; created major new transoceanic steamship lines and a new modern navy; introduced a whole new banking sector supported by seemingly unlimited venture capital, while also empowering powerful new state and private banks; and completely rebuilt the heart of Paris, street by street. Napoleon III wanted to surpass the legacy of his famous uncle, Napoleon I. In The Shadow Emperor, Alan Strauss-Schom sets the record straight on Napoleon III's legacy.\"--Provided by publisher.
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He Resembled the Great Emperor
This essay offers a local historical context for Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), reading it in relation to the rise of Napoleon III as Emperor of France. Napoleon III completed his ascendancy just as Brontë was completing her novel. His rise prompted a mixture of anxiety and optimism in the English press, as English political commentators were uncertain if this new Napoleon’s reign would mark a return to the Anglo-French nationalist strife of the first Napoleonic period or if his rule would mark a détente and productive path forward for Anglo-French relations. I argue that this ambiguity is coded into Brontë’s characterization of Monsieur Paul Emanuel, and that we can read Monsieur Paul’s romance with Lucy Snowe as a political allegory—Brontë’s attempt to decipher what Napoleon III’s rapid rise meant for Anglo-French relations. I suggest in this essay that Brontë’s interest in the contemporary Anglo-French political context was a product of her fascination with Napoleon Bonaparte, specifically his rivalry with the Duke of Wellington, and that understanding her interest in the first Napoleonic period can help us to decipher why her depiction of Anglo-French nationalist interaction in Villette is totally at odds with her other novels, where French nationalism is typically a trait that needs to be effaced.
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Charlotte de Belgique, impératrice du Mexique. Une plongée dans les ténèbres de la folie. Essai de reconstitution fictionnelle
150 years ago, in June 1867, the execution of Maximilian of Habsburg by Benito
Juarez’s men marked the end of the Second Mexican Empire. One year earlier, the Empress
Carlota had returned to Europe to request from Napoleon III that he maintain his troops in
Mexico and from Pope Pius IX that he sign a concordat to save the Empire, but to no avail.
With these setbacks, Carlota’s mental breakdown became increasingly obvious and notorious… In these pages, we recount the Belgian princess’s progressive descent into madness as
told by novelists in French language. A tragic fairy tale…
Il y a 150 ans, en juin 1867, l’exécution de Maximilien de Habsbourg par les hommes de Benito Juarez mettait fin au Second Empire mexicain. Un an avant, l’impératrice Charlotte de Belgique était rentrée en Europe pour prier Napoléon III de maintenir ses troupes au Mexique et le pape Pie IX de signer un concordat, dans le but de sauver leur empire. En vain. Suite à ces échecs, la santé mentale de Charlotte se détériora indiscutablement... Dans ces pages, nous tentons de relater la progressive plongée de la princesse belge dans les ténèbres de la folie ainsi que la racontent les romanciers/romancières en langue française. Un conte de fées tragique...
Hace 150 años, en junio de 1867, la ejecución de Maximiliano de Habsburgo por los hombres de Benito Juárez marcaba el fin del Segundo Imperio mexicano. Un año antes, la emperatriz Carlota había vuelto a Europa para rogar a Napoleón III que mantuviera sus tropas en México y al Papa Pío IX que firmara un concordato, con el objetivo de salvar el Imperio. Todo en vano. A raíz de estos fracasos, la perturbación mental de Carlota se manifestó de forma cada vez más evidente y pública... En estas páginas, intentamos relatar el hundimiento progresivo de la princesa belga en las tinieblas de la locura tal y como la narran los novelistas en lengua francesa. Un trágico cuento de hadas...
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Stay the hand of vengeance
International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times cynically abandon the pursuit of international justice altogether? Why today does justice seem so slow to come for war crimes victims in the Balkans? In this book, Gary Bass offers an unprecedented look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and a broad historical perspective. The Nuremberg trials powerfully demonstrated how effective war crimes tribunals can be. But there have been many other important tribunals that have not been as successful, and which have been largely left out of today's debates about international justice. This timely book brings them in, using primary documents to examine the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, the Armenian genocide, World War II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Bass explains that bringing war criminals to justice can be a military ordeal, a source of endless legal frustration, as well as a diplomatic nightmare. The book takes readers behind the scenes to see vividly how leaders like David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton have wrestled with these agonizing moral dilemmas. The book asks how law and international politics interact, and how power can be made to serve the cause of justice.
Bass brings new archival research to bear on such events as the prosecution of the Armenian genocide, presenting surprising episodes that add to the historical record. His sections on the former Yugoslavia tell--with important new discoveries--the secret story of the politicking behind the prosecution of war crimes in Bosnia, drawing on interviews with senior White House officials, key diplomats, and chief prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Bass concludes that despite the obstacles, legalistic justice for war criminals is nonetheless worth pursuing. His arguments will interest anyone concerned about human rights and the pursuit of idealism in international politics.
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Marie-Antoinette's Legacy
Marie-Antoinette's Legacy: The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775‒1867 unites four French consorts-queen Marie- Antoinette and empresses Joséphine, Marie-Louise, and Eugénie-to examine how each patron turned to garden patronage to demonstrate her empowerment, celebrity, and agency. The gardens at the Petit Trianon and Malmaison emerge as arenas of exceptional taste and emotivity at the epicenter of court societies. These gardens were liminal zones that profoundly influenced the evolution of French picturesque garden design. This reappraisal of royal and imperial patronage debunks one of the central tenets of garden historiography that casts each consort's gardens as sites of excessive ostentation and frivolity. Instead, consort-patrons privileged garden design precisely because they inscribed their agency onto the French territory and, in so doing, ensured the perennity of their actions. At the crossroads of Enlightenment discourses about corporeality and the senses, French colonial ambitions and plantation slavery, botanical acclimation and naturalism, these women materialized hotly contested issues of sovereignty, gender, and identity politics in their gardens.
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Marie-Antoinette's Legacy
Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems.
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Peace, war and party politics
Peace, war and party politics examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. The book considers the Conservatives’ response - in opposition and government - to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification. Within a clear chronological framework, it focuses on ‘high’ politics, and offers a detailed account of the party’s foreign policy in government under its longest-serving but forgotten leader, the fourteenth Earl of Derby. It attaches equal significance to domestic politics, and incorporates a provocative new analysis of Disraeli’s role in internal tussles over policy, illuminating the roots of the power struggle he would later win against Derby’s son in the 1870s. Overall, it helps to provide us with a fuller picture of mid-Victorian Britain’s engagement with the world.This book will be of use to those teaching and studying Victorian politics and foreign policy at all levels in higher education.
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Napoleon the Little
This pointedly satirical assessment of the governing skills of Napoleon set into motion a series of international scandals upon its initial publication in 1852. Author Victor Hugo had been living and working in Belgium when Napoleon the Little was published, but at the urging of King Leopold, the Belgian ruler, he left that country and took up residence on Jersey, an island under British rule. Readers who like their history with a stiff dose of wit will be well pleased. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Against massacre
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for the contemporary era.
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