Napoleon
Subtitle: a political life
By: Steven Englund.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
Subjects: Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821; Emperors -- France -- Biography; France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-541) and index.
Table of contents: title: Napoleone di Buonaparte; title: The making of the patriot; title: The unmaking of the patriot; title: Robespierre on horseback; title: Love and war; title: Apprenticeship in statecraft: Italy and Egypt; title: Power (I): taking it (Brumaire); title: Power (II): Using it (the consulate); title: Power (III): Naming it (from citizen consul to emperor of the French); title: La Guerre; title: encore (et pour toujours); title: The empire; title: and its fissures (1807-1810) The great unraveling (1810-1812); title: The collapse (1812-1814); title: Nation-talk: the liberal empire; title: Shadows: "The liberal empire".