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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Public Remembering, Private Reminiscing: French Military Memoirs and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

French Historical Studies, 33 (2010): 321-58.

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“It Still Makes Me Shudder”: Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

War in History, 16 (2009): 381-405.

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Remembering and Forgetting in Contemporary France: Napoleon, Slavery and the French History Wars

French Politics, Culture & Society, 26:3 (2008): 110-22.

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Self-Interest versus the Common Cause: Austria, Prussia and Russia against Napoleon

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 31 (2008): 605-32.

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Napoleon as Hero and Saviour: Image, Rhetoric and Behaviour in the Construction of a Legend

French History, 18:4 (2004): 379-403.

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New Avenues for Research in Napoleonic Europe

European History Quarterly, 33 (2003): 101-24.

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From Corsican Nationalist to French Revolutionary: Problems of Identity in the Writings of the Young Napoleon, 1785-1793

French History, 16 (2002): 132-52.

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Two Definitions of Neutrality: Prussia, the European States-System and the French Invasion of Hanover in 1803

International History Review, XIX (1997): 522-40.

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History of Violence

Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age

Bloomsbury Academic

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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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On Violence in History

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Author: Mark Micale.

New York: Berghahn, 2019, 144 p.

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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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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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