Europe Under Napoleon

by Michael Broers

Overview

Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped he stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an entirely new perspective – that of the ruled rather than the ruler. Michael Broers concentrates on the experience of the people of Europe – particularly the vast majority of Napoleon’s subjects who were neither French nor willing participants in the great events of the period – during the dynamic but short-lived career of Napoleon, when half of the European content fell under his rule.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857735683
Publisher:	I.B.Tauris
Publication date:	11/18/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	137,013
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University, UK. 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 Contents

Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
1. Conquest 1799-1807
2. Consolidation 1799-1807
3. Collaboration and Resistance: The Napoleonic State and the People of Western Europe
4. Crisis 1808-1811
5. Coercion: The Europe of the Grand Empire 1810-1814
6. Collapse: The Fall of the Empire 1812-1814
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index