by Alexander Mikaberidze (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ) Review by Max von Bargen. The Napoleonic Wars are remembered primarily as European affairs, and for good reasons. The wars and the politics around them led to sweeping transformations in warfare and politics throughout nineteenth-century Europe, and the most iconic battles, such as Austerlitz, Trafalgar, Borodino, and Waterloo, all . · Alexander Mikaberidze. The first global history of the Napoleonic Wars. Comprehensive in scope, moving across six continents and the entire period from to Moves away from the Eurocentric vision of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars which has been prevalent for so long. · A doorstop history of the series of wars that represented “a contest of great powers on a truly global scale.”. Mikaberidze (European History/Louisiana State Univ., Shreveport; Burning of Moscow: Napoleon’s Trial by Fire , , etc.) stresses that although the Napoleonic Wars, which lasted from to , were not the first truly worldwide conflicts, their scale “dwarfed” those that .
"Far broader and deeper in scope than any previous history of the Napoleonic Wars, Alexander Mikaberidze has produced a true masterpiece. He proves conclusively how intimately interconnected the events of the great struggle were, not just in Europe, but also encompassing the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Iran, India, China and Japan. Far broader and deeper in scope than any previous history of the Napoleonic Wars, Alexander Mikaberidze has produced a true masterpiece. He proves conclusively how intimately interconnected the events of the great struggle were, not just in Europe but also encompassing the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Iran, India, China and Japan. Dr. Mikaberidze specializes in the 18thth century Europe, particularly the Napoleonic Wars, and the military history of the Middle East. (Alexander Mikaberidze is professor of European history at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
Author (s): MIKABERIDZE Alexander. We should perhaps not be surprised that, as a global pandemic currently underscores the reality of the global village, Alexander Mikaberidze should brilliantly have taken the history of the Napoleonic Wars and set it rightfully in its worldwide perspective. In this, Mikaberidze not also gives the reader a retrospective (but also contemporary) view of the 18th-century continuities of European countries’ foreign policies but also bids readers extend their. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. By Alexander Mikaberidze. pp, Oxford University Press, Purchase. The regime that came to power in the wake of the French Revolution posed a unique threat to its rivals in Europe. Other European powers feared both its military strength and the spread of republican ideas. A doorstop history of the series of wars that represented "a contest of great powers on a truly global scale." Mikaberidze (European History/Louisiana State Univ., Shreveport; Burning of Moscow: Napoleon's Trial by Fire , , etc.) stresses that although the Napoleonic Wars, which lasted from to , were not the first truly worldwide conflicts, their scale "dwarfed" those that came before. Taken together, they became the "Great War" until a greater one broke out in
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