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UNINA9910824628603321 |
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Autore |
Bell David A (David Avrom) |
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Titolo |
Napoleon : a concise biography / / David A. Bell |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-19-026273-7 |
0-19-026272-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 139 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Emperors - France |
France History 1789-1815 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Corsican, 1769-1796 -- The general, 1796-1799 -- The First Consul, 1799-1804 -- The emperor, 1804-1812 -- Downfall, 1812-1815 -- Epilogue: 1815-2015. |
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This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. Then everything collapsed, leading him to spend his last years in miserable exile in the South Atlantic. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued, and his success in mobilizing human and material resources. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual |
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dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary. |
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UNINA9910372825603321 |
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Autore |
Hearty Kevin |
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Critical engagement : Irish republicanism, memory politics and policing / / Kevin Hearty [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool University Press, 2017 |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2017 |
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1-78694-499-5 |
1-78694-828-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Police - Northern Ireland |
Police-community relations - Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jun 2018). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of how memory has driven and challenged the political transition of Irish republicanism from armed conflict to constitutional politics through endorsing policing and the rule of law in the North of Ireland. Locating itself within memory studies, critical criminology and transitional justice, this book uses original interviews with political activists, community workers and former combatants from across the spectrum of modern Irish republicanism to draw out how the past frames internal tensions within the Irish republican constituency as those traditionally opposed to state policing structures opt to buy into them as part of a wider transitional process in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The book critiques the challenges of making peace with the enemy against a backdrop of communal narratives and memories of historic injustice, counterinsurgency policing and human rights abuse that do not simply |
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disappear when war turns to peace. Through a rich empirical basis the book offers an insight into these challenges from the perspective of those who were, and remain, in the thick of the Irish republican debate on policing. In doing so it provides an acute insight into the role that individual and collective memory plays in reshaping ideological outlooks, understanding processes of political transition, contextualising 'moving on' processes with former enemies and conditioning views of post-conflict police reform. |
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