From the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire: Empire After the Emperor

ISBN-13: 9783031159954 / Angielski

Thomas Dodman; Aurélien Lignereux

Opis

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link—or at least an important chain—in the global and longue durée history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the transnational historiographical turn, vastly expanding the field’s geographical scope. Its canonical chronological boundaries, on the other hand, appear increasingly narrow against this wider backdrop, giving the impression of a parenthetical, almost anachronistic aside from 1799 to 1815. What connects, and what doesn’t connect, the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire, remains by and large an open question. Put another way, this book attempts to locate the Napoleonic empire in World History. 

Spis treści

1.Introduction: Opening up the Napoleonic Empire 1

Thomas Dodman and Aurélien Lignereux

Part I The Napoleonic Empire, Between Imperialisms 25

2.Joseph Eschassériaux: From New Colonisation to Imperial

Diplomacy—Hypotheses as to a Reconversion (1797–1803) 27

Bernard Gainot

3.Napoleon of Arabia? Piracy in the Persian Gulf, the French

Threat to India, and British Imperial Responses 45

Guillemette Crouzet

4.The Jacobin and the Mameluke: Islam, Race and Political

Culture at the End of Empire 67

Ian Coller

5.Korais’s Greece and Napoleon’s Empire: The Egyptian

Campaign, Race Science, and the Europeanization an Idea

6.The Scientific Appropriation of the World: The Imperial

Legacy in Naval Officer Training 111

Hélène Vencent

7.Free Ports, Free Trade, Freedom: Napoleon’s Manifold Legacy

in Institutions and Images 127

Giulia Delogu

Part II Individual Trajectories and Imperial Conversions 145

8.Tracing the Colonial Careers of Two Former Napoleonic

Officials: Godert van der Capellen and Bernard Besier 147

Caroline Drieënhuizen and Martijn van der Burg

9.French Colonial Governors in the First Half of the Nineteenth

Century: Miniature Emperors? 167

Nicola Todorov

10.From New Départements to the New World: The Colonial

Itinerary of an Imperial Agent 185

Jean-Hugo Ihl

11.“Contriving to Pick Up Some Sailors”: The Royal Navy and

Foreign Manpower, 1815–1865 205

Sara Caputo

12.Indian Horizons: Four Officers of the Empire in the Sikh

Kingdom of the Punjab (North-West

India), 1822–1849 227

Jean-Marie Lafont

13.From Egypt to Algeria: General Pierre Boyer’s Counter-Insurgent

and Imperial Career