Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 9780006388142
Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the nation grew in artistic fulfilment, industrial wealth and international influence - until catastrophic defeat at the hands of Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 cast her back into the shadows.
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Patrick Karl O'Brien
Publisher : Library of Economic History
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004472730
"Historiographically, this book rests on the fact that European transitions to modern economic growth were obstructed and promoted by the Revolution in France and 15 years of geopolitical conflict sustained by Napoleon in order to establish French Hegemony over the states and economies of Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and overseas commerce. The chapters reveal that the nature and significance of connections between geopolitical and economic forces lend coherence to a collaborative endeavour utilising comparative methods to address a mega question: What might be plausibly concluded about the economic costs and the benefits of this protracted conjuncture of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?"--
Author : Frederick C. Schneid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810376
The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts, which approach the events of 1859–61 from a predominantly French perspective, this study draws upon a huge breadth of sources to examine the conflict as a critical event in Italian history. A concise explanation of the origins of the war is followed by a wide-ranging survey of the forces deployed and the nature and course of the fighting – on land and at sea – and the consequences for those involved are investigated. This is a groundbreaking study of a conflict that was of critical significance not only for Italian history but also for the development of 19th-century warfare.
Author : Arnold Blumberg
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780945636076
In July 1858, Count Cavour, prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, met Napoleon III to plot the provocation of war with Austria, the result of which would be the complete expulsion of Habsburg power from Italy and the creation of an Italian confederation. This work describes the means whereby diplomacy was utilized to precipitate the war and traces its continuing role during and after the hostilities.
Author : Robert Holmes Edleston
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1908
Category : France
ISBN :
Centres upon Italian nationalism, Garibaldi, and issue of the Papacy.
Author : John Bierman
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312018276
Profiles the life and rollicking times of the man who became the Emperor Napoleon III, detailing his improbable rise, his theatrical politics, and the numerous liasons that made him the most scandalous ruler of the day
Author : Alessandro BORGIA (of Sicily.)
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Frank J. Coppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 131790043X
This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines the role of the major powers outside Italy in these conflicts, particularly France, Austria, Great Britain and Prussia, and in Italy the Italian states, the Catholic Church and the revolutionaries. It also examines the role of: Cavour's Piedmont, Mazzini's Young Italy and the Party of Action, Garibaldi's Red Shirts and Daniele Manin's National Society. It is based on original research, particularly in the Vatican archives and it should to be an invaluable text for all students of Italian and European History from 6th form to undergraduate level.
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1860
Category : France
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