Alan Forrest

War, revolution, and anti-slavery were the three major forces which led to the dramatic decline of France's Atlantic empire with the loss of her richest Caribbean colony, Saint-Domingue. Meer

This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience. Meer

The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean. Meer

Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final débâcle in 1814, France remained almost continuously at war, recruiting, in the process, some two to three million Frenchmen - a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Meer