This study of the fate of Napoleon's army following its defeat by British and Spanish armies at the Battle of Bailen in 1809 tells how thousands of French prisoners of war were sent to a desolate island off Majorca. There they endured five years of deprivation, during which many died and few escaped.
One of the first books of its kind in the subject area, this groundbreaking text brings together seminal papers in the area of crisis management and organizational theory. Covering the field from both a theoretical and practical perspective, it features important contributions from Karl Weick, Charles Perrow and many other luminaries of the field. ...
Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento contains ten essays written in honour of Denis Mack Smith by leading British and Italian specialists. The volume is intended both as a tribute to Denis Mack Smith's outstanding contribution to Italian history and as an attempt to open up wider debate on Italian society and politics in the period ...
Recent events like the BSE and GM food crises, and the Concorde crash in July 2000, have illustrated that large private and public sector organisations are vulnerable and can suffer from major disruption to their business. Awareness of the need to develop expertise in risk management has grown and as a result new programs of research and teaching ...
"A Napoleonic-era version of "Survivor" "-" played for keeps" Between 1809 and 1814, the tiny Mediterranean island of Cabrera was an unwalled prison, a bleak prisoner-of-war camp for thousands of Napoleon's conscripts and elite guards captured by Spanish armies during the Peninsular War. Defeated in battle, they were a humiliation to Napoleon; ...
The Mussolini who emerges from Denis Mack Smith's outstanding political biography is the supreme opportunist, more actor than statesman, with policies shaped chiefly by events. Hence the emphasis on appearance, the Napoleonic posturing, the monumental vanity. In the end Mussolini probably came to believe his own propaganda - that he was an ...
In this book, Denis Smith presents Michael Ignatieff's intellectual journey from liberal internationalism to support for the American invasion of Iraq, Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan, and the selective use of assassination by governments.
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