| Description |
651 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-626) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
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Emperors -- France -- Biography.
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France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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| ISBN |
9780300137545 alkaline paper |
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0300137540 alkaline paper |
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