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This project focuses on the impact that Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt had on François-Réné de Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt set forth an unprecedented imperial ideology that sought to know and thus conquer the Middle East …

This thesis examines the origin and consequences of the French Republican calendar in relation to eighteenth-century temporality. It assesses the extent of the calendar's use, examines the cultural and political meanings that it assumed, and argues that the temporal order of soc…

This dissertation aims to place the Ottoman Empire within its proper context in the Napoleonic Age and calls for a recognition of the crucial role of the Sublime Porte in the War of Second Coalition (1798-1802). The Ottoman-Russian joint naval expedition (1798-1800) to the Ionia…

Nationalism is the process through which the groupings of ethnicity, nationhood, and statehood successfully merge into a nation-state. This study seeks to identify the cause of nationalism in Egypt and its characteristics.

The Austrian army played a crucial role in Napoleon’s decisive defeat during the War of the Sixth Coalition. Often considered a staid, hidebound institution, the army showed considerable adaptation in a time that witnessed a revolution in the art of war. In particular, changes m…