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Book SynopsisMichael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University. He is the author of many books on revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe including The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796 -1814, winner of the Grand Prix Napoleon Prize 2006 and Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions. He is currently writing a two-volume biography of Napoleon, the first volume of which, Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny, was published in 2014.
Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Conquest, 1799-1807 Consolidation 1799-1807 Collaboration and Resistance: The Napoleonic State and the People of Western Europe, 1799-1808 Crisis 1808-1811 Coercion: The Europe of the Grand Empire 1810-1814 Collapse: The Fall of the Empire 1812-1814 Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index