The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoleon III /
by Strauss-Schom, Alan.
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BookPublisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2018Description: x, 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781445684192 (hbk.) :; 1445684195 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 NAPSubject(s): Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 | Emperors -- France -- Biography | Biography | Biography | France -- History -- Second Republic, 1848-1852 | France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870Summary: This is the definitive biography, and the first in 20 years, of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have notoriously divided historians. Here, pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte expert and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom focuses on his successor Louis-Napoleon, overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. Schom employs years of primary source research to explore the massive cultural, social, economical, financial, international, and military impact of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon completely revolutionized the state and the economy, but amid gross financial scandals. His expansion of the French Empire was praised by the French military and resisted by the socialists.
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Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the definitive biography, and the first in 20 years, of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have notoriously divided historians. Here, pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte expert and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom focuses on his successor Louis-Napoleon, overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. Schom employs years of primary source research to explore the massive cultural, social, economical, financial, international, and military impact of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon completely revolutionized the state and the economy, but amid gross financial scandals. His expansion of the French Empire was praised by the French military and resisted by the socialists.
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