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The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars

The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars

The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars

Volume 1: Politics and Diplomacy
Michael Broers, University of Oxford
Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
June 2022
1. Politics and Diplomacy
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    Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to discuss the different aspects of the origins of the Napoleonic Wars, their international political implications and the concrete ways the Empire was governed. This volume begins by looking at the political context that produced the Napoleonic Wars and setting it within the broader context of eighteenth century great power politics in the Age of Revolution. It considers the administration and governance of the Empire, including with France's client states and the role of the Bonaparte family in the Empire. Further chapters in the volume examine the war aims of the various protagonists and offer an overall assessment of the nature of war in this period.

    • Includes chapters by leading specialists in foreign policy and governance to reflect the latest research on the wars
    • Integrates themes from the political history of the Napoleonic Wars, creating a rounded picture of the origins of the wars
    • Uses a wide range of modern scholarship to bring the subject to a wider audience

    Product details

    September 2022
    Hardback
    9781108424370
    508 pages
    235 × 157 × 28 mm
    0.93kg
    30 b/w illus. 25 maps
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    Table of Contents

    • List of Figures
    • List of Maps
    • List of Contributors to Volume I
    • Acknowledgements
    • General Introduction Alan Forrest
    • Introduction to Volume I Michael Broers and Philip Dwyer
    • Part I. The Origins of the Napoleonic Wars:
    • 1. Great Power Politics in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Horst Carl
    • 2. British Colonial Politics in an Age of European War and Creole Rebellion Bruce Lenman
    • 3. War in the Eighteenth Century Jeremy Black
    • 4. The Age of Revolutions: Napoleon Bonaparte Annie Jourdan
    • 5. From Cosmopolitanism to la Grande Nation: French Revolutionary Diplomacy, 1789–1802 Peter McPhee
    • 6. The French Revolutionary Wars Lynn Hunt
    • Part II. Napoleon and His Empire:
    • 7. The Bonapartes Michael Broers
    • 8. The Napoleonic Elites Isser Woloch
    • 9. Administration, Police and Governance Michael Rowe
    • 10. Law, Justice, Policing and Punishment Xavier Rousseaux and Antoine Renglet
    • 11. Napoleonic Wars and Economic Imperialism Silvia Marzagalli
    • 12. Napoleon and The Church Ambrogio Caiani
    • 13. Napoleon's Client States Nicola Todorov
    • Part III. War Aims:
    • 14. French Preponderance and the European System Thierry Lentz
    • 15. Habsburg Grand Strategy in the Napoleonic Wars Charles Ingrao and John Fahey
    • 16. Prussian Foreign Policy and War Aims, 1790–1815 Sam Mustafa and Samantha Sproviero
    • 17. British War Aims, 1793–815 John Bew and Jacqueline Reiter
    • 18. Alexander I's Objectives in the Franco-Russian Wars, 1801–1815 Marie-Pierre Rey
    • 19. Ottoman War Aims Virginia Aksan
    • 20. Spain and Portugal Emilio La Parra
    • 21. War Aims: Scandinavia Rasmus Glenthøj
    • Bibliographical Essays
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Alan Forrest, Michael Broers, Philip Dwyer, Horst Carl, Bruce Lenman, Jeremy Black, Annie Jourdan, Peter McPhee, Lynn Hunt, Isser Woloch, Michael Rowe, Xavier Rousseaux, Antoine Renglet, Silvia Marzagalli, Ambrogio Caiani, Nicola Todorov, Thierry Lentz, Charles Ingrao, John Fahey, Sam Mustafa, Samantha Sproviero, John Bew, Jacqueline Reiter, Marie-Pierre Rey, Virginia Aksan, Emilio La Parra, Rasmus Glenthøj

    • Editors
    • Michael Broers , University of Oxford

      Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on Napoleonic Europe. His previous publications include the first two volumes of his three-volume life of Napoleon published in 2014 and 2018 and The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796–1814. Cultural Imperialism in a European Context (2005) which won the Prix Napoléon.

    • Philip Dwyer , University of Newcastle, New South Wales

      Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, his publications include a three-volume biography of Napoleon and Violence: A Very Short Introduction (2021). He is the general editor of a four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence (2020), and co-editor of The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (2021).