Biographical note

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).