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Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks, 'daily life', and tensions with neutral states generated by Anglo-French economic warfare. It also reveals the contradictions inherent in the Napoleonic Empire - at once rational and progressive, but also coercive and exploitative. Regional and urban case studies offer a more complete understanding of the significance of economic warfare during the Napoleonic era, and explore the experiences and consequences of the conflict through several key themes: a re-evaluation of the historiography of the Continental System, the uneven power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers, and the strategies of merchants and smugglers to adapt to or circumvent the system. Transnational case studies underscore the vulnerability and ingenuity of Europeans as they faced transformative social and economic challenges.

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Katherine B. Aaslestad is a Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA. A specialist on nineteenth century Germany, she is the author of Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era (2005) and numerous articles and book chapters. Johan Joor is an historian and honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He worked inter alia at the University of Amsterdam and as independent historical researcher for various Dutch and international institutions. His research on the Dutch Napoleonic experience has been published in Dutch, French, English and Russian.

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