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Philip Dwyer

French Revolution and Napoleon

Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815-1840

London: Bloomsbury, 2018, 416 p

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Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815

London: Bloomsbury, 2013, 815 p.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013, 815 p

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Napoleon: The Path to Power

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 651 p

And Napoleon, 1769-1799: The Path to Power. London: Bloomsbury, 2007, 651 p. Spanish translation, Napoleón: El Camino hacia el Poder 1769-1799, trans. by Isabel Murillo. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2009.

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The French Revolution and Napoleon. A Sourcebook

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Author: Peter McPhee) 

Updated 2nd edition. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2024.

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The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, 3 vols.

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Author: (Michael Broers)

Vol. 1. Politics and Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 496 p.

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Napoleon and His Empire: Europe 1804-1814

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Author: Alan Forrest

London: Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 228 p.

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Napoleon and Europe

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Published September 21, 2001 by Routledge

350 Pages

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Selected Articles and Chapters

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Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815-1945’

(and Frances Clarke, Joy Damousi, Mark Edele, Reto Hofmann, and Hans-Lukas Kieser), The English Historical Review, 140 (2025), (forthcoming).

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Religion and Violence during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Between Tradition and Modernity

in Eveline G. Bouwers (ed.), Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World. London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 33-55.

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Smashing Statues: Re-evaluating Iconoclasm in History

(and Nikolas Orr), The English Historical Review, 138:592 (2023), 428–441.

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Memoirs and the Communication of Memory

(and Matilda Greig) in Alan Forrest (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, 3 vols. Vol. 3. War and Civil Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 241-59.

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Festivals, Ceremonies and Public Commemorations

in Alan Forrest (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, 3 vols. Vol. 3. War and Civil Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 260-78.

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Steven Pinker and the Nature of Violence in History

(Mark Micale), in Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale (eds), The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 1-19.

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Steven Pinker, Norbert Elias and the “Civilizing Process”

(and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen), in Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale (eds), The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 87-104.

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History, Violence and the Enlightenment

in Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale (eds), The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 142-160.

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History of Violence

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A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Enlightenment

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A Cultural History of Violence

General Editor: Philip Dwyer

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Violence: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 152 p. (Chinese translation forthcoming).

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The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence

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Author: Mark Micale

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 393 p. (Translation in Korean.)

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The Cambridge World History of Violence

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4 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 3,000 p. (Translations forthcoming in Chinese and Korean.)

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On Violence in History

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Author: Mark Micale. 

New York: Berghahn, 2019, 144 p.

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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and World

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Author: Amanda Nettelbeck. 

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. London and New York: Palgrave, 2017, 287 p.

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War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

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New York: Berghahn, 2016

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Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity Throughout History

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Authror: Lyndall Ryan. 

New York: Berghahn, 2012, 323 p

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