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Napoleon : the path to power / Philip Dwyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dwyer, Philip G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Napoleon.
- Emperors--France--Biography.
- Emperors.
- France.
- France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 651 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-626) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300137545
- 0300137540
- OCLC:
- 179832107
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