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Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to put the events of recent years--the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the falling out between Europe and the United States--in their proper perspective. It also dissects the way that politicians like Blair and Bush have used and abused history to justify the new world order they are creating.

Introduction: Napoleon and its aftermath: reshaping power in Europe and the world / Ute Planert -- France, western Europe and the Atlantic world: Napoleon's empire: European politics in global perspective / Annie Jourdan -- Unity and fragmentation: recent research trends on the "neuf départements réunis" / Brecht Deseure and Emmanuel Berger -- The Napoleonic period in Holland from a Dutch historical perspective / Johan Joor -- Liberty in times of occupation: the Napoleonic era in Germany / Armin Owzar -- Napoleonic Italy: old and new trends in historiography / Anna Maria Rao -- Against the grain: Portugal and its empire in the face of the Napoleonic invasions / Lucia Maria Bastos P. Neves -- The Peninsular War and its repercussions in France and Spain / Jean René Aymes -- "Perfidies, robberies and cruelties": Latin America and Napoleon in the age of revolutions / Stefan Rinke -- The empire overseas: the illusion of restoration / Bernard Gainot -- L'empire d'occident faces the Russian empire: inter-imperial exchanges and their reflections in historiography / Denis Sdvizkov -- What lies behind the glory? A balance sheet of the Napoleonic era in Poland / Jaroslaw Czubaty -- The Danish state and the Napoleonic wars / Rasmus Glenthoj -- The case of Norway: domestic developments and external influences on the periphery of Napoleonic Europe / Bard Frydenlund -- Decline and consolidation: Sweden, the Napoleonic wars, and geopolitical restructuring in northern Europe / Martin Hårdstedt -- Finland and the Napoleonic empire / Max Engman -- "We are constituted as a nation": Austria in the era of Napoleon / Martin Schennach -- The Illyrian Provinces from the Slovene perspective: myth and reality / Peter Vodopivec -- The French rule in Dalmatia, 1806-14: globalizing a local geopolitics/ Marko Trogrli and Josip Vrande'i -- Locating the Ottomans in Napoleon's world / Virginia Aksan -- The birth of modern Egypt from Bonaparte's campaign to Muhammad Ali's seizure of power: a historiographical essay / Jean-Marcel Humbert -- Pride & prejudice: the Napoleonic empire through the eyes of its rulers / Michael Broers