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Forging Napoleon's Grande Arme
The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied to the side of a man who wanted to dominate Europe. What was behind this drastic change of heart? In this ground-breaking study, Michael J. Hughes shows how Napoleonic military culture shaped the motivation of Napoleon’s soldiers. Relying on extensive archival research and blending cultural and military history, Hughes demonstrates that the Napoleonic regime incorporated elements from both the Old Regime and French Revolutionary military culture to craft a new military culture, characterized by loyalty to both Napoleon and the preservation of French hegemony in Europe. Underscoring this new, hybrid military culture were five sources of motivation: honor, patriotism, a martial and virile masculinity, devotion to Napoleon, and coercion. Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée vividly illustrates how this many-pronged culture gave Napoleon’s soldiers reasons to fight.
Histoires d'historiennes
La participation des femmes au développement des disciplines historiques reste en France un sujet largement ignoré. Pourtant, genre littéraire configuré (comme les autres) par l'inégale répartition des activités entre les deux sexes, l'Histoire au féminin a une histoire longue. Elle est ici relue à travers des portraits individuels ou collectifs d'historiennes, ainsi que l'analyse de quelques-uns de leurs thèmes favoris.Ce recueil révèle, aux côtés de personnalités éclatantes comme Christine de Pizan au XVe siècle, l'existence de figures moins connues mais tout aussi importantes : chroniqueuses monastiques, pédagogues laïques, mémorialistes, nouvellistes, romancières, jo...
Citizen Emperor
In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion o...
Violence in Europe
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Citizenship and Wars
The early years of democracy in France were marked by a society divided by civil war, class war and violent conflict. Citizenship and Wars explores the concept of citizenship in a time of social and political upheaval, and considers what the conflict meant for citizen-soldiers, women, children and the elderly. This highly original argument based on primary research brings new life to debates about the making of French identity in the 19th century. Putting the latest theoretical thinking into empirical use, the author assesses how the function of the state and its citizens changed during the Paris Commune and Franco-Prussian War. The study considers fresh issues such as: *how the people coped with the collapse of their government *what the upheaval meant for the provinces of France *how the issue of citizenship affected religious identities *the differences between colonial Algeria and metropolitan France.
Le Maurrassisme et la culture
L'Action française a de multiples facettes et le maurrassisme dépasse la personne et l'œuvre propre de Charles Maurras. Après une première série d'études sur les héritages, les milieux sociaux ou religieux, les cas régionaux et les vecteurs de diffusion du mouvement (L’Action française. Culture, société, politique, Septentrion, 2008), une deuxième rencontre a explicité les relations du doctrinaire avec ses interlocuteurs étrangers ainsi que la réception et les usages du maurrassisme hors de France (Charles Maurras et l’étranger. L’étranger et Charles Maurras, Peter Lang, 2009). Ce troisième ensemble est plus spécifiquement consacré au maurrassisme et à la culture,...
59 histoires pour les coachs
Alan Goodborn nous entraîne dans ce nouveau livre dans des univers variés qui amènent autant humour, légèreté, surprise que profondeur et sagesse. Les mondes d'en-haut nous éclairent à travers des symboles et des métaphores qui dépassent notre simple intellect. Il nous livre des histoires reçues de Selim Aïssel. Elles résonnent chez le lecteur, comme chez le client du coach. Elles sont aussi des outils précieux et riches pour tous les professionnels de l'accompagnement, débutant ou confirmé, et quelle que soit la forme de cette relation d'aide.
