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Philip DwyerPublication Details
BookYale University Press2008Availability
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At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about him—sensational myths often propagated by Napoleon himself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007
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
ISBN
- 9780300137545
- 0300137540
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