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There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this addition to the Reputations series. Alexander treats Napoleon as a universal figure, rather than a specifically French one, and draws from an array of evidence in many media. He focuses particularly on how Napoleon's reputation has been altered by such events as the World Wars and the Cold War, and by association with such figures as Hitler, Santa Anna, Mehemet Ali, and Mussolini
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Strikingly original. --English Historical Review
Clearly written and well researched. --CHOICE, current reviews for academic libraries
It dazzles with exotic new insights --(Modern and Contemporary France )
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Clearly written and well researched. --CHOICE, current reviews for academic libraries
It dazzles with exotic new insights --(Modern and Contemporary France )
Egocentric tyrant? Primitive Corsican condottiere? Motor of world progress? Superman beyond good and evil? Embodiment of the talents and aspirations of the common man? Or insignificant grain in the sands of time? Chracterizations of Napoleon Bonaparte are in plentiful supply. In part, the evolution of his reputation is a story of historical construction; Bonaparte was just the first in a long queue of agents eager to reveal the "real" Napoleon. But it is also true that the reputation alters according to circumstance: the Napoleon of Restoration Europe was a far cry from the Napoleon that emerged after world war and subsequent experience of totalitarianism. In more recent times he advances simultaneously as gender bigot and father of European integration. None of this is entirely irreconcilable with `the truth'; the apparent contradictions of his reputation can be traced back to the ambiguities of Napoleonic character and rule. Napoleon Bonaparte was not a conviction politician; his power lay in the ability to reflect what others wanted to see. Whether for or against, we all become followers because we discern in him so much of what we love and hate, cherish and despise.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0340719168
- ISBN 13 9780340719169
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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