Napoleon : the path to power, 1769-1799 /

At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dwyer, Philip G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821.
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821
1774-1799
Emperors > France > Biography.
Empereurs > France > Biographies.
Emperors
France > History > Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France > Histoire > 1774-1793 (Louis XVI)
France
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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