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Michael Broers
Napoleon’s Other War
he wars of Napoleon are among the
best-known and most exciting episodes
in world history . Less well known is the up-
roar the armies stirred up in their path, and
even more, the chaos they left in their wake .
The ‘knock-on effect’ of Napoleon’s sweep
across Europe went further than is often remembered:
his invasion of Spain triggered
the collapse of the Spanish Empire in Latin
America, and his meddling in the Balkans
destabilised the Ottomans . Many places had
been riven with banditry and popular tumult
from time immemorial, characteristics which
worsened in the havoc wrought by the wars .
Other areas had known relative calm before
the arrival of the French in 1792, but even the
most pacific societies were disrupted by these
conflagrations .
Behind the battle fronts raged other conflicts,
‘little wars’ – the guerrilla (the term was
born in these years) – and bigger ones, where
whole provinces rose up in arms . Bandits often
stood at the centre of these ‘dirty wars’
of ambushes, night raids, living hard in tough
terrain, of plunder, rapine and early, violent
death, which spread across the whole western
world from Constantinople to Chile . Everywhere,
they threw up unlikely characters
– ordinary men who emerged as leaders, bandits
who became presidents, priests who became
warriors, lawyers who became murder-
ing criminals . In studying these varying for-
tunes, Michael Broers provides an insight
into a lost world of peasant life, a world Napoleon
did so much to sweep away .
«Michael Broers writes with ... warmth and
even compassion ... It makes for an enjoyable
and illuminating book.» (Professor Alan Forrest,
University of York)
«Michael Broers demonstrates in this lively and
entertaining book that Napoleon’s ‘other war’
against draft dodgers, deserters, bandits, and
guerrilla insurgents shaped Europe and the
world as powerfully as conventional warfare
ever did. This is a ‘tour de force’ of comparative
history that very few scholars aside from Michael
Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers
in the Age of Revolutions
Oxford, 2010 . XXIV, 232 pp ., num . ill .
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Broers could accomplish.» (Professor John Lawrence
Tone, Georgia Institute of Technology)
«In this book Michael Broers addresses the
dirty little wars engendered by conquest, revo-
lutionary reform and military policy in the
Napoleonic era. His grasp of the sources is
solid; his writing is passionate. His book deserves
to become a classic.» (Professor Clive
Emsley, Open University)
«A brilliantly written and highly original contribution
to a neglected but crucial aspect of
Napoleonic Europe.» (Professor T.C.W. Blanning,
University of Cambridge)
«(...) the book is a splendid addition to the lit-
erature, and all the more so as it is greatly en-
riched by comparative chapters on areas of
Europe and the wider world that were never
touched by the French armies, namely Spanish
America and the Ottoman Balkans.» (Charles
Esdaile, Literary Review)
«(...) this is an excellent and stimulating book,
written with all the dashing prose of his mentor
Richard Cobb, whom Broers warmly acknowledges.»
(D.M.G. Sutherland, The Journal
of Military History)
«Michael Broers has written a masterful study
of banditry and insurgency in the Napoleonic
age, one that in every way both complements
and updates work by Eric Hobsbawm and
Charles Esdaile. [...] This excellent study, well
provided with maps and illustrations, should
occupy pride of place on the desk of any student
of modern-day insurgency and counterinsurgency.»
(Alex Marshall, War in History)
miChael Broers is a Fellow of Lady Margaret
Hall and a member of the History Faculty
of the University of Oxford, and has been
a Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton . He is the author of five books,
including The Napoleonic Empire in Italy 1796-
1814. Cultural Imperialism in a European Context?
(2005), winner of the Prix Napoléon, 2006 .
Michel Fior
Histoire · Geschichte · History
Institution globale
et marchés financiers
La Société des Nations face à la
reconstruction de l’Europe, 1918-1931
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008 . XVIII, 530 p .
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et ouvrage propose une économie politique
internationale de la Société des
Nations afin de mieux mettre en relief le rôle
déterminant qu’a joué l’ancêtre de l’ONU dans
la reconstruction économique de l’Europe au
lendemain de la Première guerre mondiale .
Résolument interdisciplinaire, l’analyse pose
un cadre conceptuel qui permet de comprendre
l’émergence des institutions internationales
comme un phénomène social situé
au croisement de l’économique et du politique
.
L’ouvrage s’articule autour de l’hypothèse
selon laquelle la SdN, par ses plans de reconstruction
mis en œuvre dans plusieurs pays
européens, a contribué à diffuser une doctrine
de discipline monétaire, une rigueur
budgétaire et une mythologie du marché autorégulateur
qui mèneront tout droit à la
Grande crise des années trente . Il se penche
sur le réseau des élites financières transnationales
qui gravitent autour de la SdN, remonte
à l’origine intellectuelle des programmes
de reconstruction, et examine leurs
répercussions sur les différents pays concernés,
l’Autriche, la Hongrie, la Bulgarie, et la
Grèce parmi d’autres .
L’analyse montre l’émergence, durant
l’entre-deux-guerres, d’une gouvernance monétaire
et financière dont le Fonds monétaire
international (FMI) sera l’héritier à l’issue du
second conflit mondial .
«Michel Fiors ambitionierte Studie zeigt in
überzeugender Manier, wie der Völkerbund
massgeblich dazu beitrug, den krisengeschüttelten
Kapitalismus mit Hilfe eines Programms
der Kooperation der Marktakteure neu zu legitimieren.
Ihr Schwerpunkt liegt eindeutig
auf der Ebene der entsprechenden Diskurse,
die präzise und mit kritischem Blick nachgezeichnet
werden, ohne dass die ‘realwirtschaftlichen’
Entwicklungen deswegen völlig vernachlässigt
werden.» (Werner Bührer, Francia-
Recensio)
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