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A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Napoleonic Europe

Internet Exercises

Nationalism. The authors of the text suggest European nationalism at the turn of the 19th century was a mix of conservative and liberal ideals. Using musical texts, do you agree or disagree?
Link 1 (http://www.napoleonguide.com/musicind.htm) (English)



Link 2 (http://www.insidepoland.pl/htmls/anthem.html) (Poles)



Link 3 (http://www.napoleonguide.com/music_marseill.htm) (French)

Art and propaganda Analyze how was caricature used as propaganda to attack Napoleon.
Link 1 (http://www.napoleon.org/us/us_mu/expos/caricatures/car-principal.html)



Link 2 (http://www.napoleonguide.com/cartoons.htm)



Link 3 (http://napoleonicgallery.napoleonicwars.com/caricatures.html)

Napoleon and the French Revolution

How did Napoleon see the French Revolution? How did he justify establishing the empire?

Link 1
(http://history.hanover.edu/TEXTS/NAPOLEON.HTM)

Napoleon and religion How did Napoleon attempt to use religion to support his rule?
Link 1 (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04204a.htm)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1806catechism-napoleon.html)



Link 3 (http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/diplomatic/concordat.cfm)

Napoleon's soldiers See what insights you can gain into why Napoleon's soldiers might have idolized him.
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/remusat-napoleon.html) [Primary Source] Madame de Rémusat, Remembrances of



Link 2 (http://www.stir.ac.uk/infoserv/library/about/collects/special/napoleon/exile2.htm) [Image] Napoleon bids farewell to the Imperial Guard

Napoleon the man Use Napoleon's letters to Josephine during the first Italian campaign to understand the feelings of a young husband separated from his wife by war.
Link 1 (http://home.earthlink.net/~desaix/webpage/Letters.html#Italy)



Link 2 (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0001/img0029.jpg) [Image] Napoleon in 1797



Link 3 (Josephine http://www.stir.ac.uk/infoserv/library/about/collects/special/napoleon/josephi2... ) [Image]

"The dream of reason produces monsters" (Francisco Goya)

Assuming Napoleon's wars were in part a consequence of the Enlightenment, what do Francisco Goya's paintings of the brutal guerrilla conflict in the Peninsular War in Spain reveal?

Link 1
(http://www.napoleonguide.com/goyaind.htm)

The Civil Code

What was the Civil Code (1804), and why might Napoleon have considered it to be the most significant of his achievements?

Link 1
(http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/code.cfm)

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