Napoleon and His Empire brings together some of the world's leading Napoleonic historians, and is born out of a reflection on the Empire two hundred years after its foundation in May 1804. It provides a timely overview of current trends in research and historiography. This work focuses on specific regions within Napoleon's Continental Empire: France, Italy and Germany. It not only revisits old themes like Napoleon's revolutionary credentials, the plebiscite for the Empire and the Continental System, but also looks at new research on questions of citizenship, gender, education, and local government. The papers presented here till new soil, as well as re-working more established fields, and present a coherent synthesis of many of the research topics exercising the present generation of historians.
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