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Napolean Symbol for an Age A Brief History with Documents

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ISBN-10: 0312431104

ISBN-13: 9780312431105

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rafe Blaufarb, Claudia Liebeskind

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By calming revolutionary turbulence while preserving fundamental gains of 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte laid the foundations of modern France. But his impact reached beyond France's borders as well. His legacy of war, civil rights, exploitation, and national awakening reshaped identities across the European continent, while in the Atlantic world he destroyed the colonial order and helped plant the seeds of American power. In this collection of wide-ranging primary sources including confidential memoranda and correspondence, speeches, memoirs, letters, police reports, and songs, most of which appear in English translation for the first time Rafe Blaufarb situates Napoleon within his time while…    
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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 9/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

RAFE BLAUFARB (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair in Napoleonic History and the Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (2002),Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835(2005), andNapoleon: Symbol for an Age(2007).    CLAUDIA LIEBESKIND (Ph.D., University of London) is associate professor of history at Florida State University, where she teaches world history, South Asian history, and the history of Islam. She is the author ofPiety on Its Knees: Three Sufi Traditions…    

RAFE BLAUFARB (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair in Napoleonic History and the Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (2002),Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835(2005), andNapoleon: Symbol for an Age(2007).    CLAUDIA LIEBESKIND (Ph.D., University of London) is associate professor of history at Florida State University, where she teaches world history, South Asian history, and the history of Islam. She is the author ofPiety on Its Knees: Three Sufi Traditions…    

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Napoleon: The Man in His Times
The Rise of Napoleon
Napoleon Comes to Power
The Foundations of Napoleon���s Regim