Saturday, March 17, 2012

Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperial, 1849-1870

Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperial, 1849-1870

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Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperial, 1849-1870

1997 | 248 | ISBN: 019510689X | PDF | 17 Mb

Drawing on newspapers, archival sources, and memoirs, Spectacular Politics shows how, as President of the Second Republic and then as Emperor Napoleon III, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte used public speech and spectacle to dazzle and seduce the French population, helping to pioneer the modern techniques of image politics and the manipulation of a mass electorate....

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