Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

Introduction; Kate Astbury and Mark Philp.- Part One: Napoleon's legitimacy in France.- The Hundred Days and the Birth of Popular Bonapartism; Michael Sibalis.- Back by Popular Demand? The Problem of French Public Opinion during Napoleon's Hundred Days; John Dunne.- The Melancholy of the Revolution: Maine de Biran facing Napoleon's Hundred Days; Alessandra Aloisi.- Part Two: Legitimacy beyond France.- German Central Europe and the Hundred Days; Leighton James.- Venetian élite reactions to the Hundred Days: news circulation and political commentaries between astonishment and fear; Valentina Dal Cin.- Napoleon's Hundred Days and the shaping of a new Dutch Identity; Lotte Jensen.- 'A People Grown Old in Revolutions': Conflicting Temporalities and Distrust in 1815 Italy; Martina Piperno.- The Hundred Days, the Congress of Vienna and the Atlantic Slave Trade; Alan Forrest.- Part Three: Contesting Napoleon's legitimacy.- 'All the world's a stage & all the men are merely players': theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days; Susan Valladares.- Dancing the 'Waterloo Waltz': Commemorations of the Hundred Days: Parallels in British Social Dance and Song; Erica Buurman with Oskar Cox Jensen.- Napoleon in Swansea: Reflections of the Hundred Days in the Welsh newspaper Seren Gomer; Mary-Ann Constantine.- George Cruikshank and the British satirical response to the Hundred Days; John Moores.- Index