Contents: Introduction / Philip G. Dwyer - Pt. I. Napoleon and French Society - 1. Napoleon's Youth and Rise to Power / Harold T. Parker - 2. The Military Culture of Napoleonic France / Alan Forrest - 3. The Napoleonic Regime and French Society / Isser Woloch - 4. The Napoleonic Police State / Michael Sibalis - Pt. II. The Nature of the Empire - 5. The Nature of Napoleonic Imperialism / Geoffrey Ellis - 6. Napoleon and the Drive for Glory: Reflections on the Making of French Foreign Policy / Philip G. Dwyer - 7. Popular Resistance to the Napoleonic Empire / Charles J. Esdaile - 8. Policing the Empire: Napoleon and the Pacification of Europe / Michael Broers - 9. State, Society and Tax Policy in Napoleonic Europe / Alexander Grab - Pt. III. Napoleon and Europe - 10. Britain and Napoleon / Brendan Simms - 11. Napoleon and State Formation in Central Europe / Michael Rowe - 12. The Peninsular War / John Lawrence Tone - 13. The Russian Empire and the Napoleonic Wars / Alexander M. Martin.