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03112aam a22004214i 4500 001 384D5208662A11E88B2F7B1897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180602010015 008 180329t20182018nyuaf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017060757 020 $a 1250057787 020 $a 9781250057785 035 $a (OCoLC)1001321817 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SSH $d YDX $d OCLCO $d PAP $d OCLCO $d QQ3 $d OCO $d CLE $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a DC280 $b .S77 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Strauss-schom, Alan, $e author. 245 14 $a The shadow emperor : $b a biography of Napoleon III / $c Alan Strauss-Schom. 246 30 $a Biography of Napoleon III 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 496 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians. Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon) overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. In the first full biography of Napoleon III by an American historian, Strauss-Schom uses his years of primary source research to explore the major cultural, sociological, economical, financial, international, and militaristic long-lasting effects of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon's achievements have been mixed and confusing, even to historians. He completely revolutionized the infrastructure of the state and the economy, but at the price of financial scandals of imperial proportions. In an age when "colonialism" was expanding, Louis-Napoleon's colonial designs were both praised by the emperor's party and the French military and resisted by the socialists. He expanded the nation's railways to match those of England; created major new transoceanic steamship lines and a new modern navy; introduced a whole new banking sector supported by seemingly unlimited venture capital, while also empowering powerful new state and private banks; and completely rebuilt the heart of Paris, street by street. Napoleon III wanted to surpass the legacy of his famous uncle, Napoleon I. In The Shadow Emperor, Alan Strauss-Schom sets the record straight on Napoleon III's legacy."--Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Napoleon $b III, $c Emperor of the French, $d 1808-1873. 600 00 $a Napoleon $b III, $c Emperor of the French, $d 1808-1873 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Emperors $z France $v Biography. 651 0 $a France $x History $y 1848-1870. 651 0 $a France $x History $y Second Empire, 1852-1870. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115216.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802013924.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180602010101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=384D5208662A11E88B2F7B1897128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search