The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon (Classic Reprint)
The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon (Classic Reprint)

Author: Theodor Flathe

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780266485063

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Excerpt from The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon This mighty and universal movement seemed, in the eighteenth cen tury, to strive to recover by redoubled ardor the ground Which it had lost in the seventeenth. What had hitherto been only theory began to be converted into practice. A consciousness of strength, never felt before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The French Revolution and Napoleon
The French Revolution and Napoleon

Author: Lynn Hunt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-02-24

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 135022975X

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In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both its causes and outcomes. In doing so, Hunt and Censer reaffirm its huge significance for the modern political world in the process. Hunt and Censer give due attention to global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism alongside more traditional topics, such as human rights and constitutions, terror and violence, and the rise of authoritarianism. This global lens allows the authors to convincingly demonstrate how the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire fundamentally altered the political landscapes of Europe, the Americas, North Africa and parts of Asia as well. The book also contains end-of-chapter questions, timelines and a wealth of primary source extracts for analysis and class discussion. This 2nd edition has been fully updated throughout and now includes: · A new first chapter which greatly enhances the wider 18th-century background material. It explains how events, trends, and personalities from the 1770s onwards created an opening that was turned into a world-shattering revolution. · A historiography textbox feature in each chapter that addresses topics and individuals like Louis XVI, terror, Robespierre and the Haitian Revolution. The feature sees two contrasting excerpts analysed and contextualized in each case. · 18 further images and 6 more maps for a stronger visual aspect and better geographical context.

The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon
The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon

Author: John Davenport

Publisher: Facts On File

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604139198

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In his famous novel A Tale of Two Cities, the great nineteenth-century English author Charles Dickens famously called the era of the French Revolution the best and worst of times. For 10 long years, from 1789 to 1799, France sought to rid itself of its old social order, grounded in the French monarchy and the Catholic Church, and inaugurate a new order based on the Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Throughout this bloody period, men wrote constitutions, women marched for bread, politicians condemned innocent people to death, and a little Corsican general named Napoleon Bonaparte came to dominate and redefine the European continent. Read about this watershed moment in European history in The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon. Milestones in Modern World History introduces students to seminal historical events that helped shape the modern world. Bolstered by biographical sketches, illustrations, photo-graphs, excerpts from primary source documents, and first-person narratives, this curriculum-based series is ideal for students writing reports. Book jacket.

Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution

Author: Martyn Lyons

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1994-06-28

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1349234362

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The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Empire and the 'liberal' of the Hundred Days. The emphasis here will be on Napoleon as the heir and executor of the French Revolution, rather than on his role as the liquidator of revolutionary ideals. Napoleon will be seen as part of the Revolution, preserving its social gains, and consecrating the triumph of the bourgeoisie. The book will steer away from the personal and heroic interpretation of the period. Instead of seeing the era in terms of a single man, the study will explore developments in French society and the economy, giving due weight to recent research on the demographic and social history of the period 1800-1815.

The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte

Author: Robert Asprey

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-06

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0786725397

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Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.