Michael 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.

• List of Maps Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionConquest, 1799-1807Consolidation 1799-1807Collaboration and Resistance: The Napoleonic State and the People of Western Europe, 1799-1808Crisis 1808-1811Coercion: The Europe of the Grand Empire 1810-1814Collapse: The Fall of the Empire 1812-1814ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Michael 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.

• List of Maps Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionConquest, 1799-1807Consolidation 1799-1807Collaboration and Resistance: The Napoleonic State and the People of Western Europe, 1799-1808Crisis 1808-1811Coercion: The Europe of the Grand Empire 1810-1814Collapse: The Fall of the Empire 1812-1814ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Michael 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.

• List of Maps Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionConquest, 1799-1807Consolidation 1799-1807Collaboration and Resistance: The Napoleonic State and the People of Western Europe, 1799-1808Crisis 1808-1811Coercion: The Europe of the Grand Empire 1810-1814Collapse: The Fall of the Empire 1812-1814ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex