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Napoleon : : the Path to Power

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First published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.
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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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 651 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300137545
0300137540

SUBJECTS
Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821.
Emperors -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.