02169nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10348437 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070810r20082007ctuab sb 001 0beng d 2007935060 9780300137545 (alk. paper) 0300137540 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)406178749 e-fr--- DC205 .D95 2008eb 944.05092 B 22 Dwyer, Philip G. Napoleon [electronic resource] : the path to power / 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. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10348437 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 32539 32539