Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System

Introduction: Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System: New Directions; Katherine B. Aaslestad PART I: LOOKING FORWARD AND BACKWARD: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AND ORIGINS OF THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM 1. The Continental System Revisited; Geoffrey Ellis 2. French Representations of the Continental Blockade; Annie Jourdan 3. Russia and the Continental System: Trends in Russian Historiography; Alexandre Tchoudinov 4. Speculations and Embargoes on the Grain Trade at the Time of the Revolutionary Wars (1792-1795); Pierrick Pourchasse PART II: REGIONAL APPROACHES TO THE PRACTICE AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM 5. The Continental System: A View from the Sea; Silvia Marzagalli 6. The Kingdom of Italy and the Continental Blockade; Alexander Grab 7. Rhine River Commerce and the Continental System; Robert Mark Spaulding PART III: ADAPTING TO ECONOMIC WARFARE: NEW NETWORKS AND ILLICIT TRADE 8. Trading Networks across the Blockades; Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl 9. Smuggling and Blockade-Running During the Anglo-Danish War 1807-1814; Jann M. Witt 10. Defying the Continental System in the Periphery: Political Strategies and Protests by Norwegian Magnates; Bard Frydenlund 11. Economic Warfare, Organised Crime, and the Collapse of Napoleon's Empire; Michael Rowe PART IV: URBAN EXPERIENCES AND THE NAPOLEONIC CONTINENTAL SYSTEM 12. Experiencing the Continental System in the Cities of French Atlantic; Alan Forrest 13. Choices and Opportunities amidst Economic Warfare; 14. Riga Export Trade at the Time of the Continental System, 1807-1812; Anita Cerpinska 15. Significance and Consequences of the Continental System for Napoleonic Holland, especially for Amsterdam; Johan Joor Select Bibliography