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Napoleon

- A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World - or a Brutal Tyrant?
Af: Adam Zamoyski Engelsk Paperback

Napoleon

- A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World - or a Brutal Tyrant?
Af: Adam Zamoyski Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9781912568017
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1912568012
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 29 nov 2018
Længde: 10mm
Bredde: 209mm
Højde: 148mm
Forlag: CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
Oplagsdato: 29 nov 2018
Forfatter(e): Adam Zamoyski
Forfatter(e) Adam Zamoyski


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9781912568017


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 128


Udgave


Længde 10mm


Bredde 209mm


Højde 148mm


Udg. Dato 29 nov 2018


Oplagsdato 29 nov 2018


Forlag CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

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