“…In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in the aftermath of the French Decade, the police were the focus of an intense reflection, inclined to rethink it beyond the Napoleonic model, whose outcome was not at all obvious. …”

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“…Political and religious conservatives tended to blame the scientific community for upsetting traditional values and, implicitly, delivering France into the hands of revolutionary extremists and Napoleonic bureaucrats. Scientists, for their part, embraced the belief that observation and experimentation offered the surest way to the knowledge and wisdom on which the welfare of society depended. …”

“…El 21 de agosto de 1809 D. Joseph Napoleón, como le llaman sus coetáneos, promulga un Real Decreto que supone el primer paso para organizar administrativamente el Ayuntamiento, que a partir de aquel momento pasará a llamarse Municipalidad, y siempre que los franceses gobiernen. …”

“…This sophisticated exploration of Vietnamese engagement with both the Catholic Church and Napoleonic Europe provides a unique perspective on the complex history of early Vietnamese Christianity…”

“…To accelerate, enterprises must bring technology to the heart of their work, for just as technology is causing this disruption, it is technology that provides the solution. Unlike Napoleon, it is time for business leaders to come down from the hill atop the Battle of Borodino and enter the fray with the technologists, for that is where the war will be won or lost…”

“…Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War The twentieth century including extended features on the First and Second World Wars including maps showing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance. …”

“…Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finally to San Francisco. …”

“…Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon's Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. …”

“…En Gran Bretaña, los años en los que apareció Jefes escoceses presenciaron el auge del conservadurismo antirrevolucionario de Edmund Burke y un movimiento de unidad patriótica en respuesta a la amenaza de Napoleón; ambos dejan una impronta muy reconocible en el texto…”
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“…As one of the most prolific authors of his time, he knew how to adapt to the literary tastes of the public from the end of the Napoleonic era until the fall of the July Monarchy. …”

“…s Prometheus Unbound and the Power of Love. Prometheus and Napoleon. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Chapter Summary Chapter five: Prometheus in the Contemporary Age Prometheus in the Arts. …”

“…Felice Orsini e l’invenzione di una bomba, che porterà poi il suo nome, per attentare alla vita di Napoleone III. Luigi Lucheni che con una lima, perché non aveva soldi per un coltello, spezza la vita della principessa Elisabetta di Baviera, meglio conosciuta come Sissi. …”

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“…Dos espléndidas crónicas que, en conjunto, ofrecen una sugerente muestra de la literatura de viajes de quien Napoleón dijo que poseía, como él mismo, «la virtud de lo completo»…”

“…In the HMS Victory Pocket Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only surviving 'line of battle' ship of the Napoleonic Wars. And, as Victory was engaged in battle during only two per cent of her active service, the book also provides a glimpse into life and work at sea during the other ninety-eight per cent of the time. …”

“…The examples are absorbing, from the Roman Empire's voracious appetite for resources to the impulse to power evident in Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and Hitler. The conclusion is not hopeful, but Overy's book is a gift to readers: a compact, judicious, engrossing examination of a fundamental question--…”

“…En muchas ocasiones las hegemonías políticas se han dilucidado en los océanos, y lo que Napoleón llamó la lucha entre el elefante y la ballena se ha repetido en bastantes ocasiones durante la historia, siendo esta última la que siempre ha vencido…”