Napoleon, For and Against (slides)

Bonaparte in Egypt (slides)

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity pp. 139-170.

Discussion: Old Worlds and New (4 and 6 April 2011)
Blaufarb, ed., Napoleon, Symbol for an Age, pp. 43-51.

Dominique Vivant Denon, Travels with Bonaparte in in Upper and Lower Egypt (1802), extracts on-line.

You might also want to look at "The Twilight of Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign" (2004), a student produced exhibition and website. (What would be the advantages and disadvantages of having your grade based largely on the making of a website?)

Further Reading
Michael Broers, "Cultural Imperialism in a European Context? Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Napoleonic Italy," Past and Present (2001), 152-180.

Juan R. I. Cole, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007).

Tom Crow, Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (1995).

Philip Dwyer, Napoleon, the Path to Power (2007).

Pieter Geyl, Napoleon, For and Against (1949).

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (2002).

Andrew McClellan, Inventing the Louvre (1994).

Edward Said, Orientalism (1978), especially chapter one, sections 2-3.

Jean Tulard, Napoleon: The Myth of the Saviour (1984).

Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Napoleon; or, the Man of the World" (1850)


Hubert Robert, Imaginary View of the
Grande Gallerie of the Louvre in Ruins (1796)


Invading Egypt (Juan Cole), the blog