Dictatorship in History and Theory, Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2004
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loginThis book was occasioned by a conference noting the bicentenary ofNapoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’ ́etat of the Eighteenth Brumaire (Novem-ber 9), 1799. At that time no one could have imagined that this nearlybotched seizure of power would put an end to the First Republic, lead tothe Consulate and First Empire, and thus alter the course of European andworld history.1Often taken to be the squalid end to the great revolutionbegun in 1789, this first coup of Napoleon Bonaparte’s served as the prece-dent for a second in December 1851 by his nephew, Louis Napoleon. Thenanother Bonaparte terminated another great revolution, that of 1848, byreplacing the Second Republic with his own empire.
