The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 3 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars is a definitive history of the Napoleonic Wars drawing on a wealth of modern scholarship and leading expertise in the field. It offers a comprehensive account of the Wars from their origins in eighteenth-century diplomacy to the memory and political legacy they left behind. The three volumes cover the grand strategies of the combatants, the campaigns they fought, and the composition of the forces at their disposal; they analyse their conflicting ideologies, alliances and diplomacy, and the varieties of resistance and occupation; and they assess their legacy for future generations. They challenge conventional assumptions about the nature of war in the period and apply methodologies derived from social and cultural history as well as from the new military history of recent years. These volumes take full account of the latest research and present a history of the Napoleonic Wars for the twenty-first century.

'What makes this series stand out is that it is written by many great scholars of varied opinions and backgrounds, all of which are complete experts in the field. This aids in the completeness and validity of this series as an authoritative text on the subject. This set is an enjoyable masterclass of scholarly endeavour, which is firmly grounded in bespoke modern interpretations of the subject, which are both refreshing and imaginative.' Physics Book Reviewer

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. His previous publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002), The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), Waterloo (2015), and The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2020). He is co-editor, with Matthias Middell, of The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (2016). 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 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). Bruno Colson is Professor at Université de Namur, Institut Patrimoines, Transmissions, Héritages. He is the editor of Napoleon: On War (2015). Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University at Shreveport. He is author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (2020). Peter Hicks is a historian of the Napoleonic period and International Affairs Manager at the Fondation Napoléon, Paris and Chargé de cours at the Institut Catholic des Etudes Supérieures (ICES), La Roche sur Yon. His previous publications include Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Le manuscript retrouvé, critical edition with presentation and commentary, with Thierry Lentz, François Houdecek and Chantal Prévot (2017), and The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, with Michael Broers and Agustin Guimerá (2012).

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