Napoleon and His Empire brings together some of the world's leading Napoleonic historians to provide a timely overview of current trends in research and historiography. It not only revisits traditional themes but also looks at new research on questions of citizenship, gender, education and local government.

Napoleon and His Empire: Some Issues and Perspectives; P.G.Dwyer & A.Forrest The Plebiscite on the Empire; M.Crook Napoleon as Revolutionary; D.P.Jordan 'Little Emperors?' Investigating Prefectoral Rule in the Departments; G.Daly Power on the Periphery: Elite-State Relations in the Napoleonic Empire; J.Dunne Special Tribunals and the Napoleonic Security State; H.G.Brown Political Prisoners and State Prisons in Napoleonic France; M.Sibalis Revisiting the Continental System: Exploitation to Self-Destruction in the Napoleonic Empire; K.Aaslestad Conscription, Economic Exploitation, and Religion in Napoleonic Germany; U.Planert Education in Napoleonic Italy; A.Grab Divided Destinies: Napoleonic Rule in Northern and Southern Italy; J.A.Davis Defining the Citizen; A.Fahrmeir Napoleon and the 'Modernization' of Germany; M.Rowe

KATHERINE AASLESTAD Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA HOWARD G. BROWN Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA MALCOLM CROOK Professor of French History at Keele University, UK GAVIN DALY Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia JOHN A. DAVIS Professor of History and Director of European Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA JOHN DUNNE Lecturer in History and Director of Research in Humanities at the University of Greenwich, UK ANDREAS FAHRMEIR Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cologne, France ALEXANDER GRAB Professor of History at the University of Maine, USA DAVID P. JORDAN Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA UTE PLANERT Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tubingen, Germany MICHAEL ROWE Lecturer of Modern European History at Queen's University, Belfast, UK MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada