The Life and Legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte: All 4 Volumes (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Revolution, Empire, Waterloo, and the Making of Modern EuropeBy William Milligan Sloane
Length58h 30m
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The Life and Legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte: All 4 Volumes is a sweeping historical biography that follows Napoleon from Corsican obscurity through revolutionary France, imperial ascendancy, continental warfare, exile, and posthumous myth. Sloane combines military narrative, diplomatic analysis, and institutional history in a prose style characteristic of late nineteenth-century scholarship: expansive, judicious, and morally attentive. The work belongs to the great tradition of Napoleonic historiography, balancing admiration for genius with scrutiny of ambition, power, and political transformation. William Milligan Sloane, an American historian educated at Columbia and in Europe, was deeply shaped by the professionalization of historical study and by a transatlantic interest in the French Revolution's consequences. As a professor at Princeton and Columbia, he brought archival seriousness, linguistic command, and a comparative political sensibility to his subject. His intellectual milieu helps explain the book's concern not merely with battles, but with the modern state, nationalism, law, and the burdens of leadership. This complete four-volume edition is recommended to readers seeking a substantial, learned, and richly contextual account of Napoleon's life and enduring influence. Students of history, military strategy, political biography, and European modernity will find in Sloane a disciplined guide to one of history's most consequential figures.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length58 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B. (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXII.
2Volume 1
27CHAPTER XXIII.
3PREFACE TO THE LIBRARY EDITION
28CHAPTER XXIV.
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER XXV.
5CHAPTER I.
30CHAPTER XXVI.
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6CHAPTER II.
31CHAPTER XXVII.
7CHAPTER III.
32CHAPTER XXVIII.
8CHAPTER IV.
33CHAPTER XXIX.
9CHAPTER V.
34CHAPTER XXX.
10CHAPTER VI.
35CHAPTER XXXI.
11CHAPTER VII.
36CHAPTER XXXII.
12CHAPTER VIII.
37CHAPTER XXXIII.
13CHAPTER IX.
38CHAPTER XXXIV.
14CHAPTER X.
39Footnote
15CHAPTER XI.
40Volume 2
16CHAPTER XII.
41CHAPTER I
17CHAPTER XIII.
42CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER XIV.
43CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER XV.
44CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER XVI.
45CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER XVII.
46CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER XVIII.
47CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER XIX.
48CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER XX.
49CHAPTER IX
25CHAPTER XXI.
50CHAPTER X[12]
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