Napoleon: A Political Life

Steven Englund

Harvard University Press, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 575 pages

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.

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NAPOLEON: A Political Life

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An all-encompassing study of the Napoleonic era and the man who gave it its name.If battles were won with footnotes, this would be a modern Austerlitz. To judge by his abundant citations, freelance ...

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This is a remarkable work of prodigious research and erudition. In a very thorough manner, Englund (Inquisition in Hollywood) examines the creation and short life of the Napoleonic state. Englund ...

Contents

• IV: 3
• V: 7
• VI: 12
• VII: 17
• VIII: 21
• IX: 24
• X: 26
• XI: 29
• XII: 34
• XIII: 36
• XIV: 40
• XV: 45
• XVI: 47
• XVII: 50
• XVIII: 52
• XIX: 56
• XX: 60
• XXI: 63
• XXII: 66
• XXIII: 70
• XXIV: 74
• XXV: 81
• XXVII: 83
• XXVIII: 88
• XXIX: 97
• XXX: 102
• XXXI: 106
• XXXII: 110
• XXXIII: 111
• XXXIV: 115
• XXXV: 119
• XXXVI: 124
• XXXVII: 126
• XXXVIII: 131
• XXXIX: 137
• XL: 141
• XLI: 142
• XLII: 150
• XLIII: 152
• XLIV: 160
• XLV: 167
• XLVI: 173
• XLVII: 178
• XLVIII: 180
• XLIX: 185
• L: 194
• LI: 196
• LII: 201
• LIII: 207
• LV: 209
• LVI: 217
• LVII: 223
• LVIII: 227
• LIX: 238
• LX: 243
• LXI: 247
• LXII: 252
• LXIII: 262
• LXIV: 269
• LXV: 279
• LXVI: 285
• LXVII: 294
• LXVIII: 298
• LXIX: 332
• LXX: 339
• LXXI: 344
• LXXII: 351
• LXXIII: 357
• LXXIV: 359
• LXXV: 364
• LXXVI: 365
• LXXVII: 368
• LXXVIII: 371
• LXXIX: 374
• LXXX: 379
• LXXXI: 381
• LXXXII: 385
• LXXXIII: 389
• LXXXIV: 393
• LXXXV: 399
• LXXXVI: 406
• LXXXVII: 410
• LXXXVIII: 414
• LXXXIX: 419
• XC: 422
• XCI: 426
• XCII: 429
• XCIII: 431
• XCIV: 433
• XCV: 434
• XCVI: 439
• XCVII: 442
• XCVIII: 448
• XCIX: 451
• C: 454
• CI: 456
• CII: 469
• CIII: 475
• CIV: 537
• CV: 543
• CVI: 545

About the author

Steven Englund is a scholar of French history.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Napoleon: A Political Life
• Author: Steven Englund
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0674018036, 9780674018037
• Length: 575 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Biography & Autobiography / Political