Napoleon in America : Bonaparte and the rhetoric of US empire /

"From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson through the end of the Mexican War, Americans invoked Napoleon's imperial conquests nearly as much as they praised Washington's military legacy. This cultural history shows that Bonaparte proved rhetorically useful to two competing accounts of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ehlers, Mark F., 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Series:	Revolutionary age (Charlottesville, Va.)
Subjects:	Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Influence. Bonapartism > United States > History > 19th century. United States > Territorial expansion. United States > History > 19th century. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Napoleonic Wars.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the American Proteus
Boundaries : the Mississippi Crisis
Cost : the Louisiana Purchase
Allies : Florida and the War of 1812
Democracy : Waterloo to Andrew Jackson
Glory : the Mexican War
Conclusion : Bonaparte's dream.