Revisiting Napoleon's continental system

Description:

"Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks, 'daily life', and tensions with neutral states generated by Anglo-French economic warfare. It also reveals the contradictions inherent in the Napoleonic Empire - at once rational and progressive, but also coercive and exploitative. Regional and urban case studies offer a more complete understanding of the significance of economic warfare during the Napoleonic era, and explore the experiences and consequences of the conflict through several key themes: a re-evaluation of the historiography of the Continental System, the uneven power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers, and the strategies of merchants and smugglers to adapt to or circumvent the system. Transnational case studies underscore the vulnerability and ingenuity of Europeans as they faced transformative social and economic challenges. "--

subjects: Politics and government,  Commerce,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History,  HISTORY / Military / Naval,  HISTORY / Europe / General,  Economic conditions,  Continental System (Economic blockade),  HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century,  Economic aspects,  HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,  History,  Continental system of napoleon

Places: Europe,  France

Times: Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815,  1789-1900,  1789-1815