Cover; Contents; REGENERATION, 1799?-1802; 1. The Invention of a Saviour; Neither Excitement nor Enthusiasm; Despair of Relying on Yourselves and Rely Only on Me; Do You Want to be King?; Blood will Flow Up to your Knees; A Regime of Servitude and Silence; The Vessel of State Arrives in Port; The End of our Suffering; Repression and Reconciliation; 2. Perfect Glory and Solid Peace; The Seat of Power; The Search for Peace; Preparations for War; Like a Thunderbolt;

Calm on a Fiery Horse; 3. Italy and the Consolidation of Power; In God's Name, Return if You Can; If I Die, It Would be a Misfortune; The Hero Returns; The Festival of the Concord; Why am I Not Permitted to Weep?; If I am a Traitor, Become Brutus; 4. Peace; Blood Must Flow; Hohenlinden; We Blessed the Name of Bonaparte; The August Pacifier of the World; Bonaparte's Paris; No One Dares Now Talk Politics; 5. The Politics of Fusion; The Return of the Emigras;

A Vaccine against Religion; The Head of Medusa Should Show Itself No More!; Portraying Bonaparte; EMPIRE, 1802-1804; 6. The Conservative Turn; The Men of the Revolution Have Nothing to Fear; The Imagination of the French People; Pots of Butter and Malcontent Republicans; An Aura of Fear; A Republic in Uniform; Weeping Tears of Blood; Six Centuries of Outrage to Avenge; 7. The End of the Revolution; The Plot to Kill Bonaparte; The Kidnapping and Execution of the Duc dâ Enghien;

Bonaparte Becomes Napoleon; Sea of Dreams, Empire of Reality; A Troublesome Family; 8. The First Throne of the Universe; The Trial of General Moreau; The Most Perfect of Men; Plebiscitary Leadership; Trinkets and Baubles; Boulogne; Charlemagne, Not Caesar (or Alexander); The Restorer of the Roman Empire; The Thaumaturge King; Rendering Napoleon Sacred; A Vexed Question; 9. Citizen Emperor; The Coronation; Representing the Empire; The Distribution of the Eagles; The Peoples Empire;

The Jacobin Emperor; CONQUEST, 1805-1807; 10. The Rage of Conquest and Ambition; King of All Italy; The Rebirth of the Coalition; The Army of England; The Battle of Cadiz; Seven Torrents Descend on Germany; Fighting England in Germany; The Bloodiest [Battle] Ever Recorded; Peace is an Empty Word; 11. The Grand Empire; Napoleon the Great, Napoleon the Saint; He is the One God Created; The Bonapartes in Europe; Breathing a Desire for Revenge; Avenging Rossbach; A Triumphant Napoleon . . .