The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies
Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 1611450373
Author McLynn explores the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the chaotic years of the French Revolution and his extraordinary military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, to his fatal decision in 1812 to add Russia to his seemingly endless conquests, and his ultimate defeat, imprisonment, and death in Saint Helena. McLynn aptly reveals the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of fate, mathematician and mystic, intellectual giant and moral pygmy, great man and deeply flawed human being.
Author : Francis Edwards (Firm)
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1908
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Arts
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Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199981485
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del Riego, General Guglielmo Pepe, General Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Colonel Sergei Muraviev-Apostol--all hoped to overturn the old order. Over the next six years, their revolutions ended in failure. The men who led them became martyrs. In The Four Horsemen, the late, eminent historian Richard Stites offers a compelling narrative history of these four revolutions. Stites sets the stories side by side, allowing him to compare events and movements and so illuminate such topics as the transfer of ideas and peoples across frontiers, the formation of an international community of revolutionaries, and the appropriation of Christian symbols and language for secular purposes. He shows how expressive behavior and artifacts of all kinds--art, popular festivities, propaganda, and religion--worked their way to various degrees into all the revolutionary movements and regimes. And he documents as well the corruption, abandonment of liberal values, and outright betrayal of the revolution that emerged in Spain and Naples; the clash of ambitions and ideas that wracked the unity of the Decembrists' cause; and civil war that erupted in the midst of the Greek struggle for independence. Richard Stites was one of the most imaginative and broad-ranging historians working in the United States. This book is his last work, a classic example of his dazzling knowledge and idiosyncratic yet accessible writing style. The culmination of an esteemed career, The Four Horsemen promises to enthrall anyone interested in nineteenth-century Europe and the history of revolutions.
Author : VD Mahajan
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9788121903387
For Students of B.A, M.A and also useful for competitive examinations
Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic journals
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