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How Napoleon's ambitions in Egypt were partly aimed at threatening British India. Dalrymple connects European and Asian imperial history, showing how the Napoleonic Wars reshaped the global colonial order.
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The same events look completely different from different civilizational perspectives
The Napoleonic Wars are a story of European heroism in Western history and a story of colonial devastation in Indian, Egyptian, and Caribbean history. Neither perspective is complete without the other.Was this useful?