Napoleon : the path to power / Philip Dwyer.
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TextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008Description: 651 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780747566779Subject(s): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Emperors -- France -- Biography | France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799DDC classification: 944.05092 LOC classification: DC205 | .D95 2008| Item type | Current location | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-626) and index.
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.
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