The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power

ISBN-13: 9780521036320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 520 str.

Roger Price

Opis

This thoroughly researched book on the Second Empire examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d'etat to establish a Second Empire. It considers the ways in which power was exercised by the new empire and how Napoleon III engaged in a difficult process of transition towards more liberal policies only to experience catastrophic defeat and the destruction of the regime because of war against Prussia.