TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dwyer,Philip G.
TI  - Napoleon: the path to power 
SN  - 9780747566779
AV  - DC205 .D95 2008
U1  - 944.05092 
PY  - 2008///,
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Napoleon
KW  - Emperors
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Louis XVI, 1774-1793
KW  - Revolution, 1789-1799
N1  - 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
ER  -