The Bee and the Eagle Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire

by Forrest, Alan; Wilson, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780230008939
• ISBN10: 0230008933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Bee and the Eagle brings together a team of international specialists to present original findings on six key themes of Empire: political cultures, war and military institutions, monarchy, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience. With a comparative approach, it begins in 1806 at the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and its replacement by a French-sponsored new political order.

Author Biography

ALAN FORREST is Professor of Modern History at the University of York, UK. He has published widely on French revolutionary and Napoleonic history, especially on social history and on the military. His most recent publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (London, 2002), Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (London, 2004) and (jointly-authored with Jean-Paul Bertaud and Annie Jourdan) Napoléon, le monde et les Anglais. Guerre des mots et des images (Paris, 2004). PETER H. WILSON is GF Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull. He is a specialist in German history and military-civil relations in early modern Europe. His most recent publications include Absolutism in Central Europe, From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558-1806 and War in European History 1815-1914 (ed).

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Maps	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Meaning of Empire in Central Europe around 1800	p. 22
The Political Culture of the Holy Roman Empire on the Eve of its Destruction	p. 42
The Napoleonic Empire	p. 65
The Political Culture of the Napoleonic Empire	p. 83
A Matter of Survival: Bavaria Becomes a Kingdom	p. 94
Napoleon as Monarch: A Political Evolution	p. 112
Napoleon and the Abolition of Feudalism	p. 131
The Prussian Army in the Jena Campaign	p. 155
Napoleon's Second Sacre? Iena and the Ceremonial Translation of Frederick the Great's Insignia in 1807	p. 172
'Desperation to the Utmost': The Defeat of 1806 and the French Occupation in Prussian Experience and Perception	p. 191
Legends of the Allied Invasions and Occupations of Eastern France, 1792-1815	p. 214
'The Germans are Hydrophobes': Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity	p. 234
The Response to Napoleon and German Nationalism	p. 256
Index	p. 285
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