Napoleon
Dwyer, Philip G.
Napoleon the path to power / [electronic resource] : Philip Dwyer. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008, c2007. - 651 p. : ill., maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Emperors--France--Biography.
France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Electronic books.
DC205 / .D95 2008eb
944.05092 B
Napoleon the path to power / [electronic resource] : Philip Dwyer. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008, c2007. - 651 p. : ill., maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Emperors--France--Biography.
France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Electronic books.
DC205 / .D95 2008eb
944.05092 B