The Construction of a European World-View in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Years
Author(s)
Woolf, Stuart
Abstract
The formation of a European world-view can be found in the creation of attitudes of nationalism during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt exemplifies the change in Europeans’ ideas about their relationship to non-European cultures and the propriety of imposing European values on them. The Napoleonic wars and the British blockade of continental Europe from 1806-1813 made these concepts more concrete as the elites sought to focus public opinion away from regional issues to a national agenda.
