American tyrannies in the long age of Napoleon / Elizabeth Duquette

Author: Duquette, Elizabeth, 1963-
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

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Oxford studies in American literary history
Oxford scholarship online

Summary

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that 19th-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.

Subject(s)

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821—Influence
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815—Foreign public opinion, American
Dictatorship
History
History of the Americas
United States—History—1783-1865

ISBN

9780191986352 ebook

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Note

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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