L'Angleterre contre Napoléon
L'organisation de la victoire 1793-1815
First Edition
Fearing an invasion by the soldiers of the French Revolution, and then by those of the Emperor, the British set up a war-time administration and economy from 1793 onwards, renewing their management, their methods and their industry. A new elite came to power with a 24-year-old Prime minister... Read More
Faced with Napoleon's expansionism, British institutions and the men who ran them reformed and modernised the country, enabling it to resist and then triumph from the start of the conflict with revolutionary France in 1793 until the Emperor's fall in 1815.
Without chauvinism or sensationalism, Roger Knight provides an analysis of events and the responses of a renewed British elite that will complement the vision of French-speaking readers, enabling them to understand how England came to dominate a quarter of the world.
Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
- Author
- Roger Knight,
- Translated by
- Daniel Verheyde,
- Collection
- Histoire et civilisations
- ISSN
- 12845655
- Language
- French
- Tags
- admiralty, French Revolution, Napoléon, Pitt, war
- BISAC Subject Heading
- HIS000000 HISTORY
- Dewey (abridged)
- 900 History
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3377 HISTOIRE
- Title First Published
- 30 September 2025
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 30 September 2025
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7574-4451-1
- Extent
- Main content page count : 646
- Code
- 2362
- Dimensions
- 16 x 24 cm
- List Price
- 36.00 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3