Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS by William Doyle

Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS by William Doyle

In the space of less than 20 years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve the internal problems which it had created, before turning his restless ambition to remodeling the political structure of the whole continent in a series of brilliant military victories. He was never able to finally subdue all his foreign enemies, and in the end they came together to bring him down; but by then it was impossible to restore what he had destroyed, or, in France, to destroy much of what he had created. The memory of his epic exploits, carefully refashioned during his last years in exile, haunted Europe for over a century, while the more distant effects of his career changed the whole destiny of the Americas and of the world.

William Doyle, a Fellow of the British Academy, has been Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol since 1986. Roots of the French Revolution (3rd edition, 1999), The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989), and Venality are among his works. Jansenism (2000) and The Selling of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (1996).

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ISBN 13	9780750961097
ISBN 10	0750961090
Title	Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS
Author	William Doyle
Series	Pocket Giants
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The History Press Ltd
Year published	2015-06-01
Number of pages	128
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