There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this addition to the Reputations series. Alexander treats Napoleon as a universal figure, rather than a specifically French one, and draws from an array of evidence in many media. He focuses particularly on how Napoleon's reputation has been altered by such events as the World Wars and the Cold War, and by association with such figures as Hitler, Santa Anna, Mehemet Ali, and Mussolini. 

 

List of illustrations
General editorial preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. The life and times
2. Heir of the Rovolution? Napoleon and the French Left proir to World War One
3. Mapoleon and the nineteenth-century Right: the Great Commander and the Man on Horseback
4. Prototype for Hitler and Mussolini? Napoleon and fascism
5. The Great Man: Napoleon in nineteenth-century literature and art
6. The people@@27@@s choice? Napoleon and popular culture
7. The Great Man meets the twentieth century
8. Napoleon and Europe: conqueror or uvifier?
Conclusion

Selext chronology of the principal events and works discussed
Slect bibliography
Index

R. S. Alexander is a professor at University of Victoria.

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