course title

War, Peace, and Empire (slides)

The Problem of Legitimacy (slides)

Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, pp. 65-101.

Reading for Discussion:
Balzac, Colonel Chabert (1832); you should have bought a copy of this.

Further Reading:
David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It (2007).

Juan Cole, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007).

Caroline Ford, "Private Lives and Public Order in Restoration France: The Seduction of Emily Loveday, " American Historical Review 99:1 (Feb. 1994), pp. 21-43 [JSTOR].

Alan Forrest, Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and the Empire (2002).

Martyn Lyons, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (1994).

Jo Burr Margadant, "Gender, Vice, and the Political Imaginary in Postrevolutionary France: Reinterpreting the Failure of the July Monarchy," American Historical Review 104:5 (Dec. 1999), pp. 1461-1496. [JSTOR]


Sandy Petrey, “Pears in History,” Representations 35 (summer 1991), pp. 52-71 [JSTOR]; this also appears in his In the Court of the Pear King (2005).

Jeremy D. Popkin, Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 (2002).

Richard Terdiman, Discourse, Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France (1985).

Jakob Walter, Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, ed. Marc Raeff (1991), excerpt on-line.
King/pear
Isser Woloch, The New Regime (1994).





Disasters of War
Goya's "Disasters of War"-- images from the Spanish campaign (exhibition curated by students, Grinnell College)

compare to
boardgame history
Napoleon in Europe, the boardgame

Napoleon's tomb (Invalides)
Napoleonic literature--memoirs, poetry, and fiction dealing with the era

Balzac-Paris
Balzac's Paris