Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon

by William R. Nester

When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European aristocracies, including those of Great Britain. For more than twenty years thereafter, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806152052
• ISBN13: 9780806152059
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"