The Bee and the Eagle
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The Bee and the Eagle

Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806

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The Bee and the Eagle

Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806

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This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows acomparison oftheir transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780230236738

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword to the Series
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Maps
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Meaning of Empire in Central Europe around 1800
  9. 2 The Political Culture of the Holy Roman Empire on the Eve of its Destruction
  10. 3 The Napoleonic Empire
  11. 4 The Political Culture of the Napoleonic Empire
  12. 5 A Matter of Survival: Bavaria Becomes a Kingdom
  13. 6 Napoleon as Monarch: A Political Evolution
  14. 7 Napoleon and the Abolition of Feudalism
  15. 8 The Prussian Army in the Jena Campaign
  16. 9 Napoleon’s Second Sacre? IĂ©na and the Ceremonial Translation of Frederick the Great’s Insignia in 1807
  17. 10 ‘Desperation to the Utmost’: The Defeat of 1806 and the French Occupation in Prussian Experience and Perception
  18. 11 Legends of the Allied Invasions and Occupations of Eastern France, 1792–1815
  19. 12 ‘The Germans are Hydrophobes’: Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity
  20. 13 The Response to Napoleon and German Nationalism
  21. Index