Author: Gouverneur MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Bonaparte
Author: Patrice GueniffeyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674426010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1037
Book Description
Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who—in Madame de Staël’s words—made the rest of “the human race anonymous.” Gueniffey follows Bonaparte from his obscure boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns of the Revolutionary wars, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Bonaparte is the story of how Napoleon became Napoleon. A future volume will trace his career as emperor. Most books approach Napoleon from an angle—the Machiavellian politician, the military genius, the life without the times, the times without the life. Gueniffey paints a full, nuanced portrait. We meet both the romantic cadet and the young general burning with ambition—one minute helplessly intoxicated with Josephine, the next minute dominating men twice his age, and always at war with his own family. Gueniffey recreates the violent upheavals and global rivalries that set the stage for Napoleon’s battles and for his crucial role as state builder. His successes ushered in a new age whose legacy is felt around the world today. Averse as we are now to martial glory, Napoleon might seem to be a hero from a bygone time. But as Gueniffey says, his life still speaks to us, the ultimate incarnation of the distinctively modern dream to will our own destiny.
Willis's Current notes
Author: Willis's Current notesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Joseph de Maistre and His European Readers
Author: Carolina ArmenterosPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004193944
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Long known solely as fascism’s precursor, Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) re-emerges in this volume as a versatile thinker with a colossally diverse posterity whose continuing relevance in Europe is ensured by his theorization of the encounter between tradition and modernity.
The Black Jacobins
Author: C.L.R. JamesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593687337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Books in Print
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1916
Book Description
Author: