DDH: A Historical Life

• Other Authors: DeFeudis, Michael R. (author)
• Format: Others
• Language: English; English
• Published: Florida State University
• Subjects: History
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2019_Fall_DeFeudis_fsu_0071E_15570

This work is focused on the impact and influence of Dr. Donald D. Horward on studies of the French Revolution and First Empire from 1960-present. It can be used as a lens to understand the development, expansion, and contraction of research, publications, graduate student production, academic dialogue, and outside private interest in the two fields. The study marks the importance of Dr. Horward’s influence on international cooperation and dialogue within the field of Napoleonic studies. It highlights how that influence led to the involvement of national governments in projects dedicated to their history, particularly in France, England, Spain, and Portugal. Horward was the primary engine behind combined academic efforts to expand the reach of military history within studies of Napoleonic Europe. Horward’s expertise, particularly in the Peninsular War, eventually caught the eye of the U.S. military and established a unique link between academia and various service branch schools, not the least of which was West Point, for a quarter century thereafter. This relationship strengthened and burgeoned into a dynamic sector within the broader field of Napoleonic studies, as these soldier-scholars not only taught future army officers, but developed into academics in their own right. Finally, Dr. Horward was a major catalyst driving the private funding pumped into the field in the last two decades of the 20th century, just as the fields reached their high tide in production and interest. === A Dissertation submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. === 2019 === November 12, 2019. === DeFeudis, Donald Horward, Florida State, Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Napoleon, Napoleon Collection === Includes bibliographical references. === Rafe Blaufarb, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mark Souva, University Representative; Jonathan Grant, Committee Member; Michael Creswell, Committee Member.