Napoleon's Atlantic: The Impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic World: (20 The Atlantic World)

This volume introduces recent scholarship on an understudied dimension of Napoleonic and Atlantic history, tracing familiar Napoleonic themes, such as miliary, legal and artistic policies to their influence in the Americas, and offering a coherent Atlantic framework that highlights connections between revolts, diasporas and territories lost and won.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction, Jordana Dym with Christophe Belaubre & John Savage Timeline of Napoleon & the Americas NAPOLEON’S ATLANTIC 1. From “France’s Cromwell” to “Consummate Brigand”: North Atlantic Catholics and Napoleon, 1789-1815, Luca Codignola 2. The Napoleonic Revolution and Construction of the Brazilian Empire, Roderick J. Barman 3. Napoleon and Louisiana: New Atlantic Perspectives, Nathalie Dessens SPANISH AMERICAN RESPONSES TO NAPOLEON’S INVASION OF SPAIN 4. Havana’s Aristocrats in the Spanish War of Independence, 1808-1814, Dominique Goncalvès 5. Napoleonic Subversion and Imperial Defense in Central America, 1808-1812, Timothy Hawkins 6. ‘The Revolution against the French’: Race and Patriotism in the 1809 Riot in Havana, Matt D. Childs EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO NAPOLEON’S ATLANTIC 7. Bernadotte, Bonaparte, and Louisiana: The Last Dream of a French Empire in North America, Jean-Marc Olivier 8. 1810: South American Events in the Press of the French Empire, Felipe Angulo Jaramillo 9. From Indiano Bureaucrats to Afrancesado Politicians in the Spanish Bonapartist State: The Cases of Azanza and Mata Linares, Victor Peralta Ruiz AFTER NAPOLEON 10. Atlantic Codes: The Impact of Napoleonic Law in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, John Savage 11. Spanish American Napoleons: The Transformation of Military Officers into Political Leaders, Peru, 1790-1830, Mónica Ricketts BONAPARTIST EXPATRIATES 12. Officers of Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Church Power in Central America, 1824-1826, Christophe Belaubre 13. The Champ d’Asile: A Bonapartist Colony in America?, Rafe Blaufarb 14. The French Mission of 1816: An Academic and Napoleonic Art in the Brazilian Tropics, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Conclusion, Nathalie Petiteau Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Christophe Belaubre is a current member of CNRS FRAMESPA UMR. He has published several book chapters in France, the United States, and El Salvador, and articles in the following journals: Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Mesoamérica, Tierra Firma, and Anuario IHES. He is co-editor of Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with J. Dym, 2007). Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and Director of Latin American Studies at Skidmore College. She is author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1839 (2006), co-editor with Karl Offen of Mapping Latin America (2011), and has published articles and book chapters in the US, Mexico, Spain and France. John Savage is associate professor of Modern European and Atlantic World history at Lehigh University. He is currently preparing a book on colonial resistance to the Napoleonic legal codes in the French Caribbean in the early nineteenth century.

Review :
[...] this is an excellent book. Charles Esdaile, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 2 (May 2012). "Un recueil passionnant, qui remplit une lacune indéniable...Il a l’avantage de montrer l’intensité et la richesse des échanges et des connections." Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam H-France Review, no. 223 (2011), 11: 1-5 "[...] the volume succeeds to illustrate that geopolitical, cultural and spatial changes in Europe also promoted such changes in the Atlantic world. Moreover, the volume exemplarily shows that the French Imperial model had long-lasting influences on the newly independent nations of the Americas." "[...] thoroughly-compiled and edited volume." Andreas Huebner, GCSC, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Itinerario (2011), 35: 140-141) Clerici en militairen, beiden geobsedeerd door de revolutie en Napoleon, bepaalden nog héél lang het denken in de 19de eeuw. Met een rijke en bijzonder veelzijdige bundel essays hebben we nu dankzij uitgeverij Brill een duidelijk zicht op de invloed van Bonaparte op het Amerikaanse continent. Tijdingen uit Leuven, no. 1 (2011) 39-40.