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UNINA9910461602303321 |
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Autore |
Bell David Avrom |
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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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1 online resource (x, 139 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Emperors - France |
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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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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, |
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he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary. |
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UNINA9910286446403321 |
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Autore |
Penn Elaine |
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Educating for professional life : twenty-five years of the University of Westminster / / Elaine Penn |
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London : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
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History of University of Westminster |
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Universities and colleges - England |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The story of the University of Westminster is the fifth volume in a series of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 by following this link: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks.
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price." |
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UNINA9910796844303321 |
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Autore |
Pasquali Cerioli Jlia |
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Propaganda religiosa : la libertà silente / / Jlia Pasquali Cerioli |
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Torino : , : G. Giappichelli Editore, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Freedom of speech - Religious aspects |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910558097003321 |
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Autore |
Strootman Rolf |
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Empires of the sea : maritime power networks in world history / / edited by Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde andRoy van Wijk |
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Brill, 2019 |
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Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; ; Volume 4 |
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Sea-power - History |
History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: |
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Maritime Empires in World History / Rolf Strootman -- The Middle Sea -- A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae / Jorrit M. Kelder -- The “First Athenian Empire”? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period / Floris van den Eijnde -- Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s / Roy van Wijk -- The Ptolemaic Sea Empire / Rolf Strootman -- The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire / Thomas Kirk -- The Northern Seas -- Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas / Marco Mostert -- Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire / Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm -- Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici — a Maritime Empire? / Olaf Mörke -- The Oceans -- Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade / Anjana Singh -- The Melaka Empire, c. 1400–1528 / Peter Borschberg -- The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks / Cátia Antunes -- The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy: Creative Absorption and the Company Empire in Asia / Remco Raben -- Pirate Networks in the Caribbean / Kris Lane -- Back Matter -- Index. |
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Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean. |
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