The Impact of Napoleon

Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797–1806

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ID23182425
AuthorsBrendan Simms (University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year1997
Publication date1997-01-09
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueImpact of Napoleon (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511583032
OpenAlexW4230395132
Open LibraryOL34444495M
ISBN9780511583032
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it was dramatic. Between the years 1797 and 1806 the main fear of Prussian statesmen was French power, rather than revolution from below. This threat spawned a foreign-policy debate characterised by geopolitical thinking: the belief that Prussian policy was conditioned by her unique geographic situation at the heart of Europe. The book breaks new ground both methodologically and empirically. By combining high-political and geopolitical analysis, it is able to present a more comprehensive and nuanced picture than earlier interpretations. The book also draws on a very wide range of sources, official and unofficial, many previously unused.

Archaeology · Economic history · Expansionism · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · German · Great power · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · 1769-1821 · 1786-1806 · foreign relations · Frederick William III, 1797-1840 · Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821) · Napoleon i, emperor of the french · politics and government · Prussia · Relations with Germans

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