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This volume introduces recent scholarship on an understudied dimension of Napoleonic and Atlantic history, tracing familiar Napoleonic themes, such as miliary, legal and artistic policies to their influence in the Americas, and offering a coherent Atlantic framework that highlights connections between revolts, diasporas and territories lost and won.
About the author
Christophe Belaubre is a current member of CNRS FRAMESPA UMR. He has published several book chapters in France, the United States, and El Salvador, and articles in the following journals: Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Mesoamérica, Tierra Firma, and Anuario IHES. He is co-editor of
Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with J. Dym, 2007).
Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and Director of Latin American Studies at Skidmore College. She is author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839 (2006), co-editor with Karl Offen of Mapping Latin America (2011), and has published articles and book chapters in the US, Mexico, Spain and France.
John Savage is associate professor of Modern European and Atlantic World history at Lehigh University. He is currently preparing a book on colonial resistance to the Napoleonic legal codes in the French Caribbean in the early nineteenth century.
