Napoleon in America (eBook)

Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire

Mark F. Ehlers (Autor)

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2025
234 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5355-7 (ISBN)

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How Napoleon's legacy infused American debates over empire in the nineteenth century No individual dominated the early nineteenth century like Napoleon Bonaparte, the titanic figure who came to embody the French Revolution and nearly brought all of Europe to heel. He exerted a cultural influence in his time that few figures in world history have ever attained. As a result, when Americans debated the merits, limits, and administration of their own burgeoning republican empire, they continually invoked Napoleon to make their point. From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and for decades afterward, the legacy of Napoleon loomed over discussions about the course their country's expansion would take. As Mark Ehlers shows, Americans of all persuasions rhetorically enlisted Napoleon to advocate for their competing visions of US imperialism. Whether they admired his method of imperial rule or saw in him a warning against the hubris of imperial overreach, Napoleon's image served as an essential cultural touchpoint in the early republic's rhetoric of empireuntil finally, by the Mexican War, most Americans had come to imagine their republican empire as a worthy successor to Napoleon's own.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Revolutionary Age
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American Empire • Andrew Jackson • Anti Imperialism • Canada • Charles Brockden Brown • Democratic republicans • Democratization • Democrats • early republic • Expansion • Federalists • Florida • French history • French Revolution • global conflict • global information networks • Gulf Borderlands • Gulf Coast • Haiti • imperial culture • imperialism • imperial republic • Indian Removal • International Exchange • Jeffersonians • Leadership • Louisiana • Louisiana Purchase • Manifest Destiny • Mexican American War • mexican war • Mexico • military history • Mississippi Crisis • Mississippi River • Napoleon Bonaparte • Napoleon I • Napoleonic legend • napoleonic wars • New Orleans • newspaper culture • Patriot War • political cartoons • popular culture • Print Culture • public perception • San Domingue • Texas • Thomas Jefferson • Walter Scott • War of 1812 • West Florida Republic • whigs • William Channing • William Ladd • William Stephens Smith
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5355-3 / 0813953553
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5355-7 / 9780813953557