CONFEDERATION OF THE RHINE

league of German states formed by Emperor Napoleon I in 1806 after his defeat of the Austrians at Austerlitz. Among its members were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Württenberg (see Pressburg, Treaty of), the grand duchies of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, and a number of other principalities. Eventually nearly all the German states except Austria and Prussia joined the confederation. The members disavowed their allegiance to the Holy Roman Empire, and Francis II, already styled emperor of Austria, relinquished the title Holy Roman emperor in 1806. Napoleon attempted to influence the internal as well as the foreign affairs of the confederation, but recurring international crises diverted his efforts. After Napoleon's retreat from Russia (1812–13), its members, by changing sides in the war, caused the collapse of the confederation.

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books on: Confederation of the Rhine  - 3358 results

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Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory: The Protection of the Rhine and the Great Lakes
Book by Marco Verweij; Palgrave, 2000
Subjects: Environmental Protection--International Cooperation--Case Studies, International Relations And Culture, Transboundary Pollution--Case Studies, Water Quality Management--Great Lakes, Water Quality Management--Rhine River
...Cultural Theory The Protection of the Rhine and the Great Lakes Marco...cultural theory : the protection of the Rhine and the Great Lakes / Marco Verweij...regimes 74 A view of the Rhine 78 1976 86: a hierarchical...
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The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as an Experiment in the International Organization of Peace
Book by Walter Alison Phillips; Longmans Green and Co., 1920
Subjects: Holy Alliance, International Relations, League Of Nations, Monroe Doctrine, Peace
...aimed only at recovering for the German nation its imprescriptible rights of liberty and independence. The Confederation of the Rhine, "the chain by which Germany had been garrotted," must cease to be. The desire of the Russian Emperor was that...
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Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600
Book by Tom Scott; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Alsace (France)--Economic Conditions, Breisgau (Germany)--Economic Conditions, Cities And Towns, Medieval--Rhine River, Guilds--France--Alsace, Guilds--Germany--Breisgau, Rhine River--Economic Conditions
...on the Upper Rhine, a counterweight to the Swabian League...dangerous signs of independence...to join the Confederation as a full member...associate, member of the Swiss Confederation in 1515 , this...on the Upper Rhine; significantly...
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The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance
Book by Frederick K. Lister; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Confederation Of States, European Union, United Nations
...1 The Place of Confederations in a Typology of Governments...Africa. The failure of the Articles of Confederation among the thirteen American...they were formed, none of the other confederations was composed of ethnic...
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Toward a Global Business Confederation: A Blueprint for Globalization
Book by Subhash C. Jain; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Globalization--Economic Aspects, International Business Enterprises, International Economic Integration, International Economic Relations
...Global Business Confederation vividly demonstrates the economic...implications of todays multinational...excellent concept (of the Global Business Confederation), and one...book proposes the establishment of a global business confederation (GBC) to...
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journal articles on: Confederation of the Rhine  - 32 results

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"Justice with Courage": Considerations on the Weakness of British Imperial Power
Journal article by Adam Norman Lynde; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
...expeditionary forces to Flanders, the Rhine, or Spain when allied complaints...particularly shrill meant that through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...to avoid a serious commitment of manpower to the Continent. Instead...encourage London to promote Canadian confederation, accomplished in 1867, that...
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Touring between War and Peace: Imagining the 'transcontinental Motorway', 1930-1950
Journal article by Alexander Badenoch; The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 28, 2007
...tourists passing through could see that the Danube Valley . . . is in no way inferior to the much sung Rhine valley.45 Such ideas were by no means incompatible with ideas of speed and rationality, but they did direct attention away from the ends of the road...
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Repetition and Working through of Childhood Psychic Trauma in the Psychoanalytic Relationship: a Case History
Journal article by Peter G. Thomson; Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 7, 1999
Subjects: Personality, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Trauma
...the American Army crossed the Rhine in 1944 under fire. To cross...interaction and had no notion of what was about to happen. When...to him was his perception of the neighbouring tenants behaviour...Remembrance Day ceremony in Confederation Square. The whole experience...
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American-Romanian Relations, 1989-1994
Journal article by Joseph F. Harrington, Edward Karns, Scott Karns; East European Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1995
Subjects: Romania, Romanian foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--Romania
...American Hungarian Foundation, and now President of the National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups, Inc. Szaz had been nearly...New companies, joint ventures, and the availability of the Rhine-Danube River route are certain inducements for long-term...
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Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, C. 1800-1815
Journal article by Katherine B. Aaslestad; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800-1815 (Book)--Book reviews
...Bonaparte and Joachim Murats "modernizing" administrations. The two essays on Napoleonic Germany feature the Confederation of the Rhine. Andreas Fahrmeir emphasizes differences within the membership of the Confederation and attributes its instability...
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July's Anniversaries
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 56, July 2006
Subjects: Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--History, Rome, Italy
...battle at Austerlitz. He went on to organize the Confederation of the Rhine, which came formally into existence in the following...British trade. Saxony saw the light and joined the Confederation of the Rhine. The insatiable Bonaparte went on to create a...
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Napoleon and German Identity: How Napoleon Laid Up Trouble for Future Generations of Frenchmen by Kick-Starting Prussian and German Domination of Eastern Europe
Magazine article by Tim Blanning; History Today, Vol. 48, April 1998
Subjects: Germany--History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814--Influence
...Germany, albeit with his relations removed, the west bank of the Rhine taken back from France, and Prussia and Austria rewarded...eight surviving states which now formed the `German Confederation looked old, in reality they were new creations, with...
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The 1848 Unification of Switzerland
Magazine article by David Birmingham; History Today, Vol. 45, September 1995
Subjects: Political culture--Switzerland, Swiss--History, Switzerland--History
...city-republic of Fribourg and the confederation of Valais, both staunchly Catholic and...French-speaking ones. In response to the schism the Swiss Diet called on its...Schaffhausen which lay mainly north of the Rhine. Its rulers decided to retain their...
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Multi-Lingual Switzerland
Magazine article by Norman Berdichevsky; World and I, Vol. 23, February 2008
Subjects: Multilingualism--Military aspects, Multilingualism--Political aspects, Multilingualism--Social aspects, Swiss foreign relations, Switzerland--Social aspects
...neighboring city-states to join the confederation. Bern, Zurich, Zug, and Lucerne...resources and urban sophistication. The trade of these cities was linked to the passageway...through the Alps and across the Rhine River. Gradually Swiss successes...
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Napoleon the Kingmaker
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Europe--History, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...of a Grand Duchy under the last Archbishop Elector of Mainz, whom Napoleon had appointed Prince Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine. His heir was Eugene de Beauharnais, so that the expected second son of Napoleon I could become King of Italy...
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France's Napoleon Complex
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 13, 1997
Subjects: Einhorn, Ira, France
...the 19th century. At the time, Napoleon fancied himself Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine and Mediator of the Swiss Confederation. Then he married the archduchess of the Habsburg empire. Meanwhile...
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Europe Rages against Britain
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 6, 1996
Subjects: Santer, Jacques
...pressure. The policy is as set out. But at a Confederation of British Industry conference yesterday the Government was warned that its policy would...Agriculture Minister in the biggest state, North Rhine Westphalia, said Germany must maintain the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Confederation of the Rhine  - 29 results

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Confederation of the Rhine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONFEDERATION OF THE RHINE league of German states...well as the foreign affairs of the confederation, but recurring international...the war, caused the collapse of the confederation. ____________________ Copyright...
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Rhine, Confederation of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RHINE, CONFEDERATION OF THE see Confederation of the Rhine . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Vienna, Congress Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Confederation was created. The Confederations constitution was accepted on June 8, 1815, and was incorporated into the Final Act of the congress, signed on June 9...important parts of Westphalia and Rhine Province. Great Britain, more interested...
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Maximilian I , 1756–1825, King and Elector of Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...vast territorial increases at the Treaty of Pressburg (1805) and made him one of the chief members of the Confederation of the Rhine . His daughter was married to Napoleons stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais. In 1813, after Napoleons retreat from...
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Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the army of the Heilbronn Confederation, created under Swedish auspices. The Swedish government also granted him the newly created duchy of Franconia, formed out of the...control over Alsace and the Upper Rhine. He died suddenly of a fever...
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