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Napoleon : the path to power
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Napoleon : the path to power / Philip Dwyer.
ISBN
9780300137545 (alk. paper)
0300137540 (alk. paper)
9780300151329 (pbk.)
Published
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008, c2007.
Physical Description
651 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-626) and index.
Contents
Prologue : the bridge at Arcola
The outsider, 1769-1792: The pleasure of recognition ; 'You will be my avenger' ; Corsica in revolution ; Ambition awakened
The revolutionary, 1792-1796: Disillusion ; The Jacobin ; Shifting political sands ; The political appointee
The conquering hero, 1796-1798: Innovation ; Conquest and pillage ; Artists and soldiers, politics and love ; The apprenticeship of power ; Bonaparte the 'Italique'
The civilizing hero, 1798-1799: A grandiose exile ; Confronting Egypt ; Conciliation and terror : governing Egypt ; Prisoner of his conquest ; The limits of imagination ; The end of the dream
Seizing power, 1799: The return of the saviour ; The coup as farce.
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