Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Astbury, Katherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Philp, Mark (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750 -1850
• Subjects: France-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Military history.; Civilization-History.; History of France.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Modern Europe.; History of Military.; Cultural History.

This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon's dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe...