Napoleon’s Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy 1st Edition

Napoleon’s Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319702070,9783319702087,3319702076,3319702084

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• ISBN 10:3319702084
• ISBN 13: 9783319702087
• Author: Katherine Astbury

This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return – known as ‘the flight of the eagle’ – gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo.

Table contents:

Part I. Napoleon’s Legitimacy in France

1. The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism in Paris
2. Back by Popular Demand? Historians and the Problem of Public Opinion During Napoleon’s Hundred Days
3. The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran Facing Napoleon’s Hundred Days

Part II. Legitimacy Beyond France

1. German Central Europe and the Hundred Days
2. Venetian Elite Reactions to the Hundred Days: News Circulation and Political Commentaries
3. Napoleon’s Hundred Days and the Shaping of a Dutch Identity
4. “A People Grown Old in Revolutions”: Conflicting Temporalities and Distrust in 1815 Italy
5. The Hundred Days, the Congress of Vienna and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Part III. Contesting Napoleon’s Legitimacy

1. “All the World’s a Stage and All the Men Are Merely Players”: Theatre-Going in London During the Hundred Days
2. Dancing the “Waterloo Waltz”: Commemorations of the Hundred Days – Parallels in British Social Dance and Song
3. Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh Newspaper Seren Gomer
4. George Cruikshank and the British Satirical Response to the Hundred Days

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