Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Review)(Brief Article)

Contemporary Review | August 1, 2001 | Copyright

Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. Isser Woloch. W. W. Norton. [pound]22.50. 281 pages ISBN 0-393-05009-2. Professor Woloch, who teaches in Columbia University, has already established himself as an authority on French revolutionary history with The New Regime. In this book the author puts Napoleon -- 'this remarkable individual' -- into context to explain Napoleon's rise to power as head of the French state. Those men who helped Napoleon to destroy the Directory and who were in turn ousted by him -- de la Meurthe, Berlier, Thibaudeau, d'Angely and ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

A holy but frail alliance
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...together in what some are labelling a "holy alliance". Their supposed common enemy encompasses...spokesman acknowledged only "a presumed alliance between the Vatican and Islam...diplomatic weakness. In 1984, the Holy See played an influential role at...
A 'holy alliance'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine ; A review of Faith and Feminism: a Holy Alliance, by Helen Lakelly Hunt. reviewed by Michaela Bruzzese...in Chile and a Sojourners contributing writer. A 'Holy Alliance'. reviewed by Michaela Bruzzese. Sojourners Magazine...
A holy and explosive alliance
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...will be posed by the emerging alliance between official Catholicism and...has been busy contructing a new holy alliance, in which the Vatican's principal...fundamentalist Islam. As far as that alliance is concerned the Vatican's missions...
Holy alliance
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; Holy alliance Boston's cop-clergy partnership sees plunge in homicides, drawing attention of officials in Milwaukee, elsewhere By JAMES...
`Holy alliance' tries to wreck birth-control conference
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...population conference has succeeded in forging even stranger alliances than the 1991 Gulf war. Saudi Arabia's decision to pull out of the Cairo discussions places it in a new and holy trinity of condemnation alongside Iran and the Vatican. It...
A holy alliance: Rabbi and sheik work for Mideast peace.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; TEKOA, West Bank _ Sometimes, if ever so rarely here, religions cease to divide people _ and unite them. Alliances turn holy. As utopian as that sounds in these days of rage, a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim sheik are working on religious solutions...
Alexander I, the Holy Alliance and Clemens Metternich: a reappraisal.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly ; ...the time. It is perhaps typical that one of the epithets hurled by Metternich against Alexander's brainchild, the Holy Alliance, was that it represented a philanthropic document under the guise of religion. Metternich's use of the word philanthropy...
CUBA-VATICAN: THE HOLY ALLIANCE AGAINST GLOBALIZATION
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire ; ...over, and the world has been provided with a new and peculiar alliance against globalization founded by warriors from opposite philosophical...the Catholic Church, is planned in detail by advisers. The Holy See has thousands of years' experience in conspiracies, wars...
Brown's holy alliance; BLACK DOG.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) ; BLACK DOG Brown's holy alliance GORDON BROWN'S dreary Cabinet crony Alistair Darling is off to America to build links with the Republicans ready for Brown...
COLUMN: Feminist Christians: A holy alliance?
News Wire article from: University Wire ; ...the past several weeks, I have been reading a book written by Helen LaKelly Hunt, titled, "Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance." In this book, Hunt writes that there are three kinds of feminists: 1) those who feel uncomfortable with organized...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a ..."