Napoleon's Road to Glory : Triumphs, Defeats and Immortality

by Markham, J. David

• ISBN13: 9781857533279
• ISBN10: 1857533275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Brasseys Uk Ltd

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(4)
Introduction	11	(5)
Prologue Early Life and Education	16	(7)
Part One The Soldier and the Revolution	23	(66)
1. The French Revolution: New Ideas, Old Governments	25	(7)
2. A Career Begins: Toulon and Beyond	32	(8)
3. Saving a Government and Winning a Wife	40	(6)
4. A Command of His Own: Italy, 1796	46	(12)
5. The New Alexander: Egypt and the Holy Land, 1798-1799	58	(20)
6. Seizing a Government	78	(11)
Part Two The Years as Consul	89	(66)
7. Forming a Government	91	(10)
8. The Past Strikes Back: Italy, 1800	101	(6)
9. Religious Peace	107	(5)
10. Reforms for the People: The Economy and the Law	112	(6)
11. The Education of a Nation	118	(7)
12. An Empire in the West: The Louisiana Purchase	125	(4)
13. The High Point of a Career	129	(6)
14. The Strike of Lightning	135	(7)
15. The Future that Could Have Been: The Peace of Amiens	142	(13)
Part Three A Republican Emperor	155	(38)
16. Empire	157	(5)
17. Resumption of Hostilities	162	(6)
18. The Height of Imperial Glory: Austerlitz	168	(5)
19. War and Love	173	(6)
20. Revolutionary Empire: Reforms at Home and Abroad	179	(6)
21. A New Dynasty	185	(8)
Part Four Steps towards the End	193	(34)
Prelude: Napoleon's Most Intractable Foe	195	(2)
22. Economic Warfare: The Continental System	197	(4)
23. The Spanish Quagmire	201	(10)
24. Russia, 1812	211	(16)
Part Five The Final Collapse	227	(56)
25. Mirage of Recovery, 1813-1814	229	(6)
26. Treachery and Defeat	235	(11)
27. Elba	246	(8)
28. One Hundred Days : The Eagle Returns	254	(13)
29. The Road to Destiny	267	(7)
30. Waterloo and Abdication	274	(9)
Part Six Saint Helena and Immortality	283	(18)
31. The Road to Exile	285	(4)
32. The Island Prison	289	(3)
33. Sir Hudson Lowe	292	(4)
34. Of Death and Murder	296	(5)
Epilogue The Eagle Returns: The Final Road to Glory	301	(2)
Works Cited	303	(10)
Index	313
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Introduction	xi
Emmanuelle Arsan
Emmanuelle	1	(3)
Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of the Stepmother	4	(3)
Ephelia
"Love's First Approach"	7	(2)
Philip Roth
Sabbath's Theater	9	(3)
John Cheever
Falconer	12	(2)
Charles Bukowski
Notes of a Dirty Old Man	14	(3)
Johannes Secundus
"The Kisses"	17	(2)
Fernando Alegria
Instructions for Undressing the Human Race	19	(2)
Paulus Silentiarius
"Tantalos"	21	(2)
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections	23	(2)
Homer
The Iliad	25	(2)
A. C. Swinburne
Poems and Ballads	27	(3)
Sappho
"Anactoria"	30	(2)
Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn	32	(4)
Lucretius
The Nature of the Universe	36	(3)
Choderlos de Ladlos
Dangerous Liaisons	39	(3)
Kalyana Malla
The Ananga Ranga	42	(3)
Almudena Grandes
The Ages of Lulu	45	(4)
John Donne
"The Ecstasy"	49	(4)
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles	53	(3)
Sir Walter Raleigh
"Dulcina"	56	(3)
Saint Teresa de Avila
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself	59	(2)
Aleister Crowley
"Go into the Highways"	61	(2)
Aristaenetus
The Love Epistles of Aristaenetus	63	(3)
Guillaume Apollinaire
The Eleven Thousand Virgins	66	(3)
Charles Baudelaire
Paris Spleen	69	(3)
Jean Genet
Our Lady of the Flowers	72	(2)
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past	74	(3)
Rita Mae Brown
Rubyfruit Jungle	77	(3)
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange	80	(3)
Matthew Lewis
The Monk	83	(3)
Gennifer Flowers
Passion and Betrayal	86	(2)
Bram Stoker
Dracula	88	(3)
George Saunders
"The 400-Pound CEO"	91	(3)
William Styron
Sophie's Choice	94	(2)
Anne Sexton
"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator"	96	(3)
Goethe
The Venetian Epigrams	99	(3)
Herculine Barbin
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite	102	(3)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau	105	(2)
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow	107	(3)
The Earl of Rochester
"The Debauches"	110	(2)
Judy Blume
Forever...	112	(3)
The Rig Veda	115	(4)
Marguerite Duras
The Ravishing of Lol Stein	119	(3)
Shikibu Murasaki
The Tale of Genji	122	(5)
David Lodge
Small World	127	(5)
John Irving
The Cider House Rules	132	(4)
Søren Kierkegaard
Diary of the Seducer	136	(3)
Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky	139	(2)
Peter Abelard
The History of My Misfortunes	141	(4)
Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye	145	(3)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Psychopathic Sexualis	148	(3)
Umberto Eco
"How to Recognize a Porn Movie when You See One"	151	(3)
Poems from the Sanskrit	154	(2)
Dennis Cooper
Guide	156	(4)
Hal Bennett
Lord of Dark Places	160	(3)
Peter Damian
Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices	163	(3)
Medieval Handbooks of Penance	166	(4)
Günter Grass
The Tin Drum	170	(2)
Mark Leyner
Et Tu, Babe	172	(2)
Saint Augustine
The Confessions of Saint Augustine	174	(2)
Paul Gauguin
Noa Noa	176	(3)
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces	179	(2)
Victor Lavalle
Our Secret	181	(2)
Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter	183	(3)
Rosemary Rogers
Sweet Savage Love	186	(2)
Paul Radin
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology	188	(3)
John Fowles
Mantissa	191	(3)
Richard Lovelace
"Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris"	194	(3)
Alexander Pushkin
"Gavriliada"	197