TY - BOOK AU - Dwyer,Philip G. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Napoleon: the path to power AV - DC205 .D95 2008eb U1 - 944.05092B 22 PY - 2008///, c2007 CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Napoleon KW - Emperors KW - France KW - Biography KW - History KW - Louis XVI, 1774-1793 KW - Revolution, 1789-1799 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007; Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-626) and index; Prologue : the bridge at Arcola -- The outsider, 1769-1792: The pleasure of recognition ; 'You will be my avenger' ; Corsica in revolution ; Ambition awakened -- The revolutionary, 1792-1796: Disillusion ; The Jacobin ; Shifting political sands ; The political appointee -- The conquering hero, 1796-1798: Innovation ; Conquest and pillage ; Artists and soldiers, politics and love ; The apprenticeship of power ; Bonaparte the 'Italique' -- The civilizing hero, 1798-1799: A grandiose exile ; Confronting Egypt ; Conciliation and terror : governing Egypt ; Prisoner of his conquest ; The limits of imagination ; The end of the dream -- Seizing power, 1799: The return of the saviour ; The coup as farce; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10348437 ER -