Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Ida M. TarbellPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494178062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte ...
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellNapoleon
Author: Andrew RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780670025329
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.
Napoleon
Author: Steven EnglundPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439131074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This sophisticated and masterful biography, written by a respected French history scholar who has taught courses on Napoleon at the University of Paris, brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. Since boyhood, Steven Englund has been fascinated by the unique force, personality, and political significance of Napoleon Bonaparte, who, in only a decade and a half, changed the face of Europe forever. In Napoleon: A Political Life, Englund harnesses his early passion and intellectual expertise to create a rich and full interpretation of a brilliant but flawed leader. Napoleon believed that war was a means to an end, not the end itself. With this in mind, Steven Englund focuses on the political, rather than the military or personal, aspects of Napoleon's notorious and celebrated life. Doing so permits him to arrive at some original conclusions. For example, where most biographers see this subject as a Corsican patriot who at first detested France, Englund sees a young officer deeply committed to a political event, idea, and opportunity (the French Revolution) -- not to any specific nationality. Indeed, Englund dissects carefully the political use Napoleon made, both as First Consul and as Emperor of the French, of patriotism, or "nation-talk." 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 is at particular pains to explore the unprecedented power Napoleon maintained over the popular imagination. Alone among recent biographers, Englund includes a chapter that analyzes the Napoleonic legend over the course of the past two centuries, down to the present-day French Republic, which has its own profound ambivalences toward this man whom it is afraid to recognize yet cannot avoid. Napoleon: A Political Life presents new consideration of Napoleon's adolescent and adult writings, as well as a convincing argument against the recent theory that the Emperor was poisoned at St. Helena. The book also offers an explanation of Napoleon's role as father of the "modern" in politics. What finally emerges from these pages is a vivid and sympathetic portrait that combines youthful enthusiasm and mature scholarly reflection. The result is already regarded by experts as the Napoleonic bicentennial's first major interpretation of this perennial subject.
The Story-life of Napoleon
Author: Wayne WhippleNapoleon: A Concise Biography
Author: David A. BellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190262737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. Then everything collapsed, leading him to spend his last years in miserable exile in the South Atlantic. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued, and his success in mobilizing human and material resources. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.
Napoleon
Author: Paul JohnsonPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670030781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
With masterly eloquence, a bestselling historian offers a searching portrait of a man who shaped history and cast his shadow over two centuries.
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
Author: John Gibson LockhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description