Michael Broers
Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. His major research interests are in Italian and French history in the eighteenth and nineteenth 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. His books include, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796–1814. Cultural Imperialism in a European Context? (2005), which won the Prix Napoléon of the Fondation Napoléon. His most recent publications are Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions (2010); and The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, ed. with Peter Hicks and Agustin Guimera (2012). He is currently the holder of a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a book for Oxford University Press, entitled Napoleonic Civilization.
