Author: William Monteith (Lieutenant-General.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in the Years 1808-9 ...
Author: William Monteith (Lieutenant-General.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in the Years 1808-9
Author: William MonteithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finland
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in the Years 1808-9
Author: William MonteithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243687169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in the Years 1808-9
Author: Peter van SuchtelenNarrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in the Year 1808-1809
Author: Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians, in the years 1808. 2. From an unpublished Work by a Russian Officer of Rank. Edited by Gen. Monteith
Author: FinlandThe Napoleonic Wars
Author: Alexander MikaberidzePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199394067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.
The Westminster Review
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Russia
Author: Philip LongworthPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429916869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.