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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780429503321

Autore

Dwyer Philip G

Titolo

Napoleon [[electronic resource] ] : the path to power / / Philip Dwyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, 2008, c2007

ISBN

9786612089565

1-282-08956-0

1-282-35314-4

9786612353147

0-300-14820-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (672 p.)

Disciplina

944.05092

B

Soggetti

Emperors - France

France History Louis XVI, 1774-1793

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-626) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.