About the lecture

In this module, we think about Napoleon's military campaigns in Europe, from his greatest victory at Austerlitz (1806) to his disastrous invasion of Russia (1812) and his final defeat at the hands of Wellington at Waterloo (1815).

About the lecturer

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford. His major research interests are in Italian and French history in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly the Napoleonic period. He is interested in the application of theories of cultural imperialism to European contexts in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic period, and in the relationship of regionalism and popular Catholicism to modern state-building.