Napoleon's Atlantic: The Impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic World

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18154-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 907 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

This volume offers an introduction to recent scholarship on an understudied dimension of Napoleonic and Atlantic history, bringing together scholars working from Latin American cultural history to European diplomatic history. Without pretending to provide a comprehensive treatment of Napoleon’s Atlantic impact, fourteen chapters trace the direct and indirect consequences of France’s substantial post-1804/5 retreat from an Atlantic presence, and suggest how Napoleonic era world wars contributed to emerging post-imperial identities in the Americas. As such, the book offers something new to scholars of Napoleon, by tracing familiar themes from military, legal and administrative modernization to artistic policies and cultural influences to the Americas. It also provides a framework for Atlantic World scholars who have tended to view the many strands of Napoleonic influence as unrelated fragments rather than elements of a complex mosaic of complex, diverse interrelations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Codignola, Luca

Barman, Roderick James

Dessens, Nathalie

Goncalvès, Dominique

Hawkins, Timothy

Childs, Matt

Olivier, Jean-Marc

Amgulo Jaramillo, Felipe

Peralta Ruiz, Viktor

Ricketts, Mónica

Blaufarb, Rafe

Moritz Schwarcz, Lilia Katri

Petiteau, Nathalie

Dym, Jordana

Savage, John

Belaubre, Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Jordana Dym with Christophe Belaubre & John Savage
Timeline of Napoleon & the Americas

NAPOLEON’S ATLANTIC
1. From “France’s Cromwell” to “Consummate Brigand”: North Atlantic Catholics and Napoleon, 1789-1815, Luca Codignola
2. The Napoleonic Revolution and Construction of the Brazilian Empire, Roderick J. Barman
3. Napoleon and Louisiana: New Atlantic Perspectives, Nathalie Dessens

SPANISH AMERICAN RESPONSES TO NAPOLEON’S INVASION OF SPAIN
4. Havana’s Aristocrats in the Spanish War of Independence, 1808-1814, Dominique Goncalvès
5. Napoleonic Subversion and Imperial Defense in Central America, 1808-1812, Timothy Hawkins
6. ‘The Revolution against the French’: Race and Patriotism in the 1809 Riot in Havana, Matt D. Childs

EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO NAPOLEON’S ATLANTIC
7. Bernadotte, Bonaparte, and Louisiana: The Last Dream of a French Empire in North America, Jean-Marc Olivier
8. 1810: South American Events in the Press of the French Empire, Felipe Angulo Jaramillo
9. From Indiano Bureaucrats to Afrancesado Politicians in the Spanish Bonapartist State: The Cases of Azanza and Mata Linares, Victor Peralta Ruiz

AFTER NAPOLEON
10. Atlantic Codes: The Impact of Napoleonic Law in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, John Savage
11. Spanish American Napoleons: The Transformation of Military Officers into Political Leaders, Peru, 1790-1830, Mónica Ricketts

BONAPARTIST EXPATRIATES
12. Officers of Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Church Power in Central America, 1824-1826, Christophe Belaubre
13. The Champ d’Asile: A Bonapartist Colony in America?, Rafe Blaufarb
14. The French Mission of 1816: An Academic and Napoleonic Art in the Brazilian Tropics, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Conclusion, Nathalie Petiteau

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christophe Belaubre is a current member of CNRS FRAMESPA UMR. He has published several book chapters in France, the United States, and El Salvador, and articles in the following journals: Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Mesoamérica, Tierra Firma, and Anuario IHES. He is co-editor of Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with J. Dym, 2007).

Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and Director of Latin American Studies at Skidmore College. She is author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1839 (2006), co-editor with Karl Offen of Mapping Latin America (2011), and has published articles and book chapters in the US, Mexico, Spain and France.

John Savage is associate professor of Modern European and Atlantic World history at Lehigh University. He is currently preparing a book on colonial resistance to the Napoleonic legal codes in the French Caribbean in the early nineteenth century.