Books written by Alan Forrest
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Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution
This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of Paris, and the mediations of different political cultures, which ensured that provincial France made a ...
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The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution
In his classic study of the Terror, Donald Greer claims that 3,548 death sentences were passed in the Loire-inférieure, the highest number of any French department, including the Seine.” But that is an official figure that greatly ...
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The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution
The result was what became perhaps the most effective single piece of propaganda against the slave trade, a plan of the slave ship Brooks, supposedly to scale, showing the dimensions of the ship and the way in which the slaves were ...
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Napoleon
Napoleon seized every chance that was offered him, making full use of his undoubted abilities and charismatic presence. But the Empire he created, stretching across most of the European continent, was not the work of one man.
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Napoleon: Life, Legacy, and Image
In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose ...
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Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire
This is an original piece of research into the Napoleonic wars from the perspective of the ordinary soldier, available in paperback for the first time. >
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Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire
Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on ...
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The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution
The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial ...
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The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory
A major contribution to the study of collective identity and memory in France, this book examines a French republican myth: the belief that the nation can be adequately defended only by its own citizens, in the manner of the French ...
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The French Revolution
This book provides an interpretation of the French Revolution that is both thematic and accessible to the general reader. The discussion includes an analysis of the historiography of the subject,...
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Waterloo: Great Battles
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams.
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The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Alan Forrest draws a rich portrait of France's Atlantic communities in this tumultuous period, and the uneasy legacy of the French slave trade.
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Topological Invariants for Projection Method Patterns
This memoir develops, discusses and compares a range of commutative and non-commutative invariants defined for projection method tilings and point patterns.
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The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806
This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political ...
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The Swordmaster
The Swordmaster
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Napoleon, the World and the English
When Napoleon Bonaparte became Premier Consul in 1799, France and England had been at war for seven years. Peace was concluded in 1802. It lasted one year.
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Topological Invariants for Projection Method Patterns
General introduction Topological spaces and dynamical systems Groupoids, $C^\ast$-algebras, and their invariants Approaches to Calculation I: Cohomology for codimension one Approaches to Calculation II: Infinitely generated cohomology ...
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Love Songs and Other Poems
Love Songs and Other Poems
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Napoleon. Viață, moștenire, imagine: o biografie
Biografia sugerează, în chip aproape inevitabil, prin relatarea cronologică a faptelor vieţii acelui individ, începând de la naştere şi continuând cu experienţele trăite pe parcursul anilor, că evenimentele respective au avut o ...
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Champions of Your Century: 1900-1999 : as Chosen by Readers of the Leicester Mercury
Champions of Your Century: 1900-1999 : as Chosen by Readers of the Leicester Mercury