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A Short Resource List, compiled by Charles Sieloff, PhD
It has been said that more books have been written about Napoleon than about any other man, except for Jesus Christ, and our extended reading list contains a number a massive biographies and histories that could keep the average reader busy for years. If, on the other hand, you are simply looking for relatively quick and painless ways to broaden your understanding of Napoleon and his impact on Europe, you might want to start with D. G. Wright's Napoleon and Europe (Seminar Studies in History series, Longman, 1984; 137pp), which combines 95 pages of balanced and concise narrative with a section of short document excerpts, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology. Alexander Grab's Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe (European History in Perspective series, Palgrave, 2003; 249pp; also available in Kindle format) provides separate chapters for each major country, clearly showing how Napoleon's impact was always a mixture of modernizing reform and Franco-centric exploitation.
For those who want to know more about the central figure of the age, Vincent Cronin's Napoleon (Harpercollins, 1995; 400pp) offers a balanced, but basically positive account of his life, without dwelling on the minutiae of his military exploits. Paul Johnson's short biography, Napoleon: A Life (Penguin Lives series, paperback 2006; 208pp; also available in Kindle format and as an audiobook) challenges the hero-worshiping view of Napoleon, seeing him as an essentially negative precursor to the traumatic era of European conflicts in the 20th century. PBS Home Video also has a four-hour documentary Napoleon (2000; re-released 2006 as part of the Empires series) available from Netflix or Amazon.
Two of our speakers have also made significant contributions of the history of Napoleonic Europe, with Steven Englund's Napoleon: A Political Life (Harvard U. Press, pb 2005; 600pp) and Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave, pb 2008; 304pp; also available as an audiobook).
A Longer Resource List, Compiled by Stanford Intern Andrew Linford
Asprey, Robert. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (2001)
Asprey, Robert. The Reign Of Napoleon Bonaparte (2002)
Bell, David A. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It (2007)
Broers, Michael. Europe Under Napoleon: 1799-1815 (1996)
Burleigh, Nina. Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007)
Chandler, David G. The Campaigns of Napoleon (1973)
Cole, Juan. Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007)
Cole, Juan. Engaging the Muslim World (March 17, 2009)
Cronin, Vincent. Napoleon (1995)
Dwyer, Philip. Napoleon and Europe (2003)
Dwyer, Philip. Napoleon: The Path to Power (2008)
Ellis, Geoffrey. The Napoleonic Empire (2003)
Englund, Steven. Napoleon. A Political Life (2004)
Esdaile, Charles. Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 (2008)
Franceschi, Michel and Weider, Ben. Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars (2007)
Kagan, Frederick. The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805 (2006)
Johnson, Paul. Napoleon: A Life (2002)
Marrinan, Michael. Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850 (March 30, 2009)
McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography (2003)
Moreh, Shmuel and Tignor, Robert L. Napoleon In Egypt: Al-jabarti's Chronicle Of The French Occupation, 1798 (2005)
Schom, Alan. Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life (1998)
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace (1869)
Woolf, Stuart. Napoleon’s Integration of Europe (1991)
Zamoyski, Adam. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March (2004)
Zamoyski, Adam. Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (2008)
PBS web site in support of Empires series on Napoleon, first broadcast in 2000. Contains background material, short histories of Napoleon and Josephine, the politics of the time, timelines, study guides for students.
Juan Cole’s site for Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, with many links to other Napoleon sites, including:
napoleaon.org
napoleonguide.com
napoleon-series.org
pbs.org | napoleon resources
napoleonica.org
DVD - Biography - Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France (2004, A&E DVD Archives)
DVD – Napoleon (2000, Re-released in 2006 as part of PBS Empires Series)
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