American tyrannies in the long age of napoleon
Auteur :
Duquette, Elizabeth
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192899880
Date de publication :
28 sept. 2023
Dimensions :
24,0 x 16,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
784 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.