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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 August 2009
      15 November 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511496844
      9780521808309
      9780521036320
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496844
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.949kg, 518 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 520 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      New Studies in European History
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    New Studies in European History
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    This book is about a major historical figure, Napoleon III, and a political regime. It examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d'état to establish a Second Empire. It then considers the ways in which power was exercised by the new imperial regime. Later, apparent stability led Napoleon III to engage in a difficult process of transition towards a more liberal regime; but at the point of success the decision was taken to go to war against Prussia which resulted in a catastrophic defeat and the destruction of his regime. This is a most thoroughly researched book on the Second Empire, which makes a contribution to our knowledge of a vitally important period of French history following the 1848 revolution and the intense mid-century crisis.

    Reviews

    ‘… a major achievement … It will surely - and deservedly - be regarded as the standard work on the ‘anatomy’ of a political system now receiving its due attention.’

    Source: H-FRANCE

    ‘This book should prove to be invaluable to serious students and scholars of the French Second empire for many years to come … an absolute must for any and all serious students of the ill-fated Second Empire and its often (and to a degree overly) maligned emperor, Napoleon III.’

    Source: History

    ‘… a monumental achievement.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘… wide-ranging and remarkably enjoyable.’

    Graham Robb Source: London Review of Books

    ‘… Prices’s study lies … in his impressive mastery of detail and in how he manages to clothe the bones of his subject with a wealth of information and illustrative material from an astonishingly wide range of sources.’

    Source: History

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