Product Description: The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by enormous social, political, economic and cultural change. Liberalism, nationalism, romanticism and industrialism profoundly affected the course of Europe and compelled conservative monarchies to accept the principles of collective action and military force to curb political revolution...read more

Provides an examination of the methods that states in the Napoleonic era used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars.

Analyses the tactics and techniques of the armies that struggled for supremacy in Europe from the end of the French Revolution to Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. This book examines elements of Napoleonic warfare: infantry, cavalry, generalship, artillery and siege warfare.

Product Description: This collection of essays provides a broad strategic interpretation of European warfare from 1792-1815. Unlike traditional military histories which focus on a revolution in military affairs from the French view, this volume offers a general European perspective, placing the armies and the wars in historical context, while addressing substantive changes to respective military systems...read more

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Product Description: Under the direction of Napoleon, the army of the Kingdom of Italy became a national army in the modern sense. In order to create it, Napoleon encouraged Italian nationalism, and northern Italians began to perceive themselves as citizens of a greater Italy...read more