Napoleon a political life

By:

Englund, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Scribner 2004Description: xiv, 575 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780674018037

Subject(s):

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

DDC classification:

944.0509ENG

Summary: This sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall--from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and, finally, to his exile and death--he explores the unprecedented power Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall--from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and, finally, to his exile and death--he explores the unprecedented power Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.

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