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The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth
"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?"--
A teoria geral do imaginário 50 anos depois: conceitos, noções, metáforas
Ao longo do século XX, o imaginário deixou de ser sinônimo de fantasia ou de ser associado à loucura para ocupar um elugar epistemológico e ontológico específico na produção de representações e de sabers, ao ponto de constituir sua própria heurística. Deve-se isso ao trabalho de numerosos pensadores oriundos dos campos mais diversos das Ciências Humanas e Sociais, da filosofia à psicanálise, da antropologia à literatura, que desembocou na Teoria Geral do Imaginário, lançada há quase 50 anos em Chambéry (França) sob forma do primeiro CRI (Centro de Pesquisas sobre Imaginário). Desde então, os estudos sobre o imaginário se tornaram mais diversificados e complexos através do mundo e através das disciplinas. Diversos movimentos epistemológicos reivindicaram conceitos mais flexíveis, que se tornaram noções e se dispersaram em metáforas. Se, por um lado, as noções e as metáforas apresentam a vantagem de admitir mais de uma ideia por vez, como as ideias contraditórias, por outro lado elas podem levar à imprecisão ou à equivalência generalizada dos termos, tornando vão o trabalho do pensamento.
The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book
"Actions and Losses in Personnel, Colours, Standards and Artillery, 1792-1815" -- from cover.
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Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
History And Campaigns Of The Rifle Brigade Vol. II (1800-1809)
History of Rifle Brigade from 1809 to 1813 - mainly Peninsular War in which the regiment was involved from start to finish. On 10th May 1809 the strength of the 1st Battalion was 1,536 and the 2nd 1,579 and so a 3rd Battalion was formed. The unfortunate 2nd Battalion was involved in the Walcheren expedition August to December 1809 and when our troops evacuated the place battle deaths had amounted to 111, deaths from disease numbered over 4,000. But the main subject in this volume is the Peninsular War in which the regiment played a very active part from beginning to end. All three battalions were involved and seventeen Battle Honours were awarded, the highest number for any regiment in that campaign. The descriptions of operations are in detail, supported by superb maps. Throughout his account the author draws upon contemporary sources, official correspondence, despatches, reports, letters, diaries, reminiscences and on the work of such historians as Fortescue and Oman. —Print Ed.
