Resisting Napoleon

Abstract

Contents: Introduction: The British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815, Mark Philp A tale of two conflicts: critiques of the British war effort, 1793-1815, Philip Harling The sea fencibles, loyalism, and the reach of the state, Nicholas Rogers The defence of Manchester and Liverpool in 1803: conflicts of loyalism, patriotism and the middle classes, Katrina Navickas 'An insurrection of loyalty': the London volunteer regiments' response to the invasion threat, Jon Newman In defence of Great Britain: Henry Addington, the Duke of York and military preparations against invasion by Napoleonic France, 1803-04, Charles John Fedorak 'This soldierlike danger': the trial of William Blake for sedition, Jon Mee and Mark Crosby John Bull in a dream: fear and fantasy in the visual satires of 1803, Alexandra Franklin Britain and the black legend: the genesis of the anti-Napoleonic myth, Simon Burrows 'The cheap defence of nations': monuments and propaganda, Holger Hoock Music and politics, 1793-1815: section 1: introduction, Mark Philp Section 2: the Volunteer Band, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Roz Southey Section 3: 'you heroes of the day': ephemeral verse responses to the Peace of Amiens and the Napoleonic Wars, 1802-04, Caroline Jackson-Houlston Section 4: 'thus we kept away Bonaparte': music in Oxford at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Susan Wollenberg Anti-English discourse among the authorities: myths and realities in the northern departements, Annie Crepin and Vincent Cuvilliers 'An inundation from our shores': travelling across the Channel around the Peace of Amiens, Renaud Morieux Index.