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The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoleon III
Strauss-Schom, Alan2025
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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.
Main title:
The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoleon III / Alan Strauss-Schom.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2025.Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
512 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781398125445 (pbk)
Dewey class:
920 NAP
Language:
English
Subject:
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873Emperors -- France -- BiographyFrance -- History -- Second Republic, 1848-1852France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870BiographyFrance19th century, c 1800 to c 1899Biography & non-fiction proseBiography: historical, political & militaryEuropean history
BRN:
3038223