William Doyle

Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the space of less than twenty 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750965392
• Artikelnr.: 42882726

Autorenporträt

William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He has also taught or visited in universities and research centres in France and the USA. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of fifteen books, mostly on the history of France between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. He has spent much of the last fifteen years thinking and teaching about Napoleon and his times.