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No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought down by petty, reactionary kings of Europe? In this definitive account, historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor for Napoleon was his insatiable desire for fame. More than a myth-busting portrait, however, Esdaile offers a panoramic view of the armed conflicts that spread so quickly out of revolutionary France to countries as remote as Sweden and Egypt. To establish why the countries of Europe fought one another for so long and with such devastating results, Esdaile portrays the battles as the consequence of rulers who were willing to take the immense risks of either fighting or supporting Napoleon--risks that resulted in the extinction of entire countries.--From publisher description.… (más)
¿Fue Napoleón, como pretendía, el precursor de la unidad de Europa? Lo que está claro es que sus guerras, que suelen estudiarse como campañas separadas, sólo se entienden plenamente en una dimensión continental, que tome en cuenta tanto la forma en que se combinan entre sí como su relación con el marco de la Europa de su tiempo. Charles Esdaile nos ofrece una "historia europea" de las campañas napoleónicas en un libro innovador, que ilumina la complejidad de unos acontecimientos que cambiaron el curso de nuestra historia. Para el lector español este libro tiene el interés adicional de mostrarle la Guerra de la Independencia en un contexto internacional que le da pleno sentido
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For my mother, Elizabeth Alice Ellen Esdaile, with much love
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Writing of the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars in 1903, John Holland Rose once remarked, 'The history of Napoleon now becomes, for twelve momentous years, the history of mankind.' Such a remark today seems like a relic of a bygone era.
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If Napoleon has had any influence in the making of the European Community at all, then it has been, quite literally, in the role of bogeyman.
No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought down by petty, reactionary kings of Europe? In this definitive account, historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor for Napoleon was his insatiable desire for fame. More than a myth-busting portrait, however, Esdaile offers a panoramic view of the armed conflicts that spread so quickly out of revolutionary France to countries as remote as Sweden and Egypt. To establish why the countries of Europe fought one another for so long and with such devastating results, Esdaile portrays the battles as the consequence of rulers who were willing to take the immense risks of either fighting or supporting Napoleon--risks that resulted in the extinction of entire countries.--From publisher description.
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