Napoleon the path to power /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
2008, c2007.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10348437 |
Table of 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.