Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.
Author(s): Alexander Mikaberidze
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 977
Tags: Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1815, Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1815: Influence, Geopolitics: History: 19th Century, Military history, Modern: 19th Century
Cover
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Copyright
Dedicatioin
Epigraphy
Contents
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Plates
Chapter 1: The Revolutionary Prelude
Chapter 2: The Eighteenth-Century International Order
Chapter 3: The War of the First Coalition, 1792–1797
Chapter 4: The Making of La Grande Nation, 1797–1802
Chapter 5: The Second Coalition War and the Origins of the “Great Game”
Chapter 6: The Rites of Peace, 1801–1802
Chapter 7: The Road to War, 1802–1803
Chapter 8: The Rupture, 1803
Chapter 9: The Elephant Against the Whale: France and Britain at War, 1803–1804
Chapter 10: The Emperor’s Conquest, 1805–1807
Chapter 11: “War Through Other Means”: Europe and the Continental System
Chapter 12: The Struggle for Portugal and Spain, 1807–1812
Chapter 13: The Grand Empire, 1807–1812
Chapter 14: The Emperor’s Last Triumph
Chapter 15: The Northern Question, 1807–1811
Chapter 16: “An Empire Besieged”: The Ottomans and the Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 17: The Qajar Connection: Iran and the European Powers, 1804–1814
Chapter 18: Britain’s Expeditionary Warfare, 1805–1810
Chapter 19: Britain’s Eastern Empire, 1800–1815
Chapter 20: The Western Question? Struggle for the Americas, 1808–1815
Chapter 21: The Turning Point, 1812
Chapter 22: The Fall of the French Empire
Chapter 23: The War and Peace, 1814–1815
Chapter 24: The Aftermath of the Great War
Notes
Prelim
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
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Abbreviations
Archives
Periodicals
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
