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Zamoyski, Adam

 
9781912568017: Napoleon: A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World - or a Brutal Tyrant?
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ISBN 10 : 1912568012 ISBN 13 : 9781912568017
Editeur : CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD, 2018

Synopsis

Born in Corsica, and a brilliant military leader during the French revolution, Napoleon became Emperor in 1804 and dominated European and indeed global affairs for the next ten years, leading France against a series of coalitions in what were later called the Napoleonic wars. His victories are the stuff of legend, as is his famous invasion of Russia in 1812, disastrous and shattering retreat from Moscow two years later, and final defeat by Britain and its allies at Waterloo in 1815. So how great a military leader was Napoleon?  And how skilled a political operator? Why are his relationships with women, and especially his Empress, Josephine, so famous? And what of his legacy – in particular, how important was the so-called Napoleonic Code? “The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon,” says Andrew Roberts. “To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empie.” Zamoyski assesses this verdict of Napoleon and gives his own view of the greatness and legacy of one of history’s most compelling figures.
 

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À propos de l'auteur

Adam Zamoyski is an author and historian descended from an old and noble Polish family. He read History at Oxford and has lectured widely on Napoleon and European history in America and Australia as well as in Europe. He is married to the artist Emma Sergeant.

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Éditeur
CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1912568012
ISBN 13 
9781912568017
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
128
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