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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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Violent Death

in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), The Routledge History of Death Since 1800. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 63-76.

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General Introduction: Violence in World History

(and Joy Damousi), in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, Matthew Trundle (eds), Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 1-18.

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Whitewashing History: Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence

Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, 44:1 (Spring 2018), 54-65.

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Violence and its Histories: Meanings, Methods, Problems

56:4 (2017), History & Theory, 5-20.

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“Savage Wars of Peace”: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

(and Amanda Nettelbeck), in Philip Dwyer and Amanda Nettelbeck (eds), Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and World. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. London and New York: Palgrave, 2017, pp. 1-22.

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Reflections on Genocide and Settler-Colonial Violence

(and Lyndall Ryan), History Australia, 13:3 (2016): 335-50.

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“Making Sense of the Muddle”: War and the Culture of Remembering

in Philip Dwyer (ed.), War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature. New York: Berghahn, 2016, pp. 1-26.

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The Politics of Fusion: Napoleon, the Revolution and the Empire

in David Andress (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 573-89.

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History of Violence

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A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Enlightenment

Editor: Philip Dwyer

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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

General editor (and Joy Damousi)

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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