Michael George Broers (born 1954) is a British historian. Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford. He was Fellow and Tutor in History at Lady Margaret Hall from 2004 until his retirement in 2022.
Broers attended the University of St Andrews (MA, 1978) and the University of Oxford (DPhil, 1982). His doctoral supervisor was Richard Cobb. Prior to joining Lady Margaret Hall Broers taught at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Leeds and Kalamazoo College. At Lady Margaret Hall he served as the college's wine steward and tutor for admissions.
Broers is the author of several academic books about revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe. He won the Grand Prix Napoléon in 2006. Professor Saul David in The Daily Telegraph wrote that Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age is perhaps the "finest biography of Napoleon ever written". He served as a historical advisor for the 2023 film Napoleon directed by Ridley Scott.
Broers has contributed to academic journals such as War in History, The Historical Journal and Central European History. He is on the editorial boards of the international journal Napoleonica La Revue, "an online review which aims to promote research in the history of the First and Second French Empires".https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-napoleonica-la-revue.htm?contenu=about Napoleonica La Revue, "published by the Fondation Napoléon, is academic, multidisciplinary, international and peer-reviewed".
Bibliography
Europe Under Napoleon, 1799-1815 (1996) Europe After Napoleon: Revolution, Reaction, and Romanticism, 1814-1848 (Manchester University, 1996) Napoleonic Imperialism and the Savoyard Monarchy 1773-1821: State Building in Piedmont (Edwin Mellen Press, 1997) Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy: The War Against God, 1801-1814 (Routledge, 2001) The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814: Cultural Imperialism in a European Context? (2005) Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions (Peter Lang, 2010) Napoleon volume one: Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny (2014) volume two: Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 (2018) volume three: Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 (2022) The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire (IB Tauris, 2016) (editor) A History of the European Restorations Governments, States and Monarchy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) Culture, Society and Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) (editor) The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars volume one: Politics and Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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