This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to ob

Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found

This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to ob

Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some

In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813-15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Nap