Name: The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America (en Inglés)
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Author: Ocampo, Emilio
ISBN: 9780817361259

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The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Emilio Ocampo

Editorial

University Alabama Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

528

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780817361259

Categorías

Historia

The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America (en Inglés)

Emilio Ocampo (Autor) · University Alabama Press · Tapa Blanda

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Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary Committee Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish colonies, from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The Bonapartists roiled the Western World as they sought fortune, fame, and glory in the expanding United States and in the tumultuous Spanish Americas suffering from repression and civil disorder, and even in the states of Europe. They were joined by adventurers from other nations who shared their admiration for the fallen emperor. This is the first full-length examination of the Bonapartists who emigrated from France after Napoleon's defeat and exile, who formed a loose confederation with adventurers and romantics, and who contemplated a new empire in the Western Hemisphere. The scheme had the support and encouragement of the fallen emperor himself and his brother Joseph, former King of Spain, who lived in exile in the United States. Emilio Ocampo has examined archives on three continents and sources in several languages to ferret out the evidence--a monumental task considering that conspirators tried to leave no evidence of their plans, and that a failed plot, like failure in general, leaves few claimants. Ocampo reinterprets Latin American independence as an international event that drew in all the major powers. By illuminating the complex connections between the shattered France of the Bourbon restoration; an England threatened by radical politician inspired by the French Revolution; Napoleon in exile at St. Helena; the United States, where home-grown adventurers and French émigrés alike saw opportunity; and the collapsing Spanish colonial empire, where revolutionaries were allying themselves with the veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armée, Ocampo brings together two bodies of scholarship: Napoleonic history and Latin American independence. He does so by tracing the steps of four of the most fascinating characters of the era: two Britons disaffected with their own government--Lord Thomas Cochrane and Sir Robert Wilson--and two former generals of Napolean's army named Charles Lallemand and Michel Brayer. The Emperor's Last Campaign is a fascinating story, well told, and peopled with all sorts of improbable characters and schemes that perhaps just missed coming to full fruition but that in the process contributed to one of the most important events of the nineteenth century: the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power.

Emilio Ocampo

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Graduado en Economía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1985, este autor obtuvo un Master of Business Administration (MBA) en la Universidad de Chicago en 1990. Desde 2007, es profesor adjunto de Historia Económica y Finanzas, Director del Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica y miembro del Comité Académico del Máster de Finanzas de la Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA). Además, ha sido profesor adjunto en la Stern School of Business de la Universidad de Nueva York (2013-2014) y ha impartido conferencias sobre historia y economía argentina en instituciones como ESEADE, la Universidad Austral y CUDES.

Es miembro del Consejo Académico de la Fundación Libertad y Progreso y, entre 2016 y 2019, fue Senior Associate del Center for Strategic and International Studies en Washington D.C. Su obra escrita incluye títulos como "Mito de la Industrialización Peronista" (2020), un análisis crítico de las políticas económicas del peronismo; "De la Doctrina Monroe al Destino Manifiesto" (2009), centrado en las relaciones internacionales de América Latina; y "Entrampados en la Farsa" (2012), una reflexión sobre los desafíos económicos y políticos del país.

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