Napoleon - A Political Life

Informationen zum Autor Steven Englund is a scholar of French history. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung As Englund charts Napoleon’s dramatic rise and fall—from his Corsican boyhood, French education, astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (1799–1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and to his exile and death—he explores the unprecedented power Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Englund, Steven Englund, Englund Steven
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2005
• EAN: 9780674018037
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01803-7
• No. of pages: 600
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / France, Biography / Autobiography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Biography: historical, political and military, Specific wars and campaigns, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Napoleonic Wars, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)