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Books

My books, including translations:

 

French Revolutionary Lives, co-edited with Colin Jones, London, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024.

Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020.

French translation: Le culte des chefs: Charisme et pouvoir à l'âge des révolutions, trans. Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat and Aude de Saint-Loup, Paris, Fayard, 2022.

 

Italian translation: Il culto dei capi: Carisma e potere nell’età delle rivoluzione, trans. Alessandra Manzi, Rome, Viella, 2023.

Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World, co-edited with Yair Mintzker, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

The West: A New History, co-authored with Anthony Grafton, New York, W.W. Norton, 2018.

Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present, New York, Oxford University Press, 2016.

Napoleon: A Concise Biography, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015. Paperback published as Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Turkish translation: Napoléon: Kisa, büyüleici bir hayat, trans. Tansel Demirel, Kitapyurdu, Istanbul, 2024.

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It, Boston, Houghton & Mifflin, 2007 (British edition, London, Bloomsbury, 2007)

French translation: La première guerre totale: L'Europe de Napoléon et la naissance de la guerre moderne, trans. Christophe Jaquet, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2010.

Spanish translation: La primera guerra total: La Europa de Napoleón y el nacimiento de la guerra moderna, trans. Álvaro Santana Acuña, Madrid, Alianza, 2012.

 

Portuguese translation: Primeira guerra total: A Europa de Napoleão e o nascimento dos confrontos internacionais como os conhecemos, trans. Miguel Soares Palmeira, Rio de Janeiro, Record, 2012.

Turkish translation: Napoléon ve İlk Topyekûn Savaşın Hikayesi: Modern Savaş Sanatının Doğuşu, trans. Burak Yazıcı, Kitapyurdu (Istanbul), 2022.

 

The Cult of the Nation in France, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001.

 

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Chinese translation: 发明民族主义(法国的民族崇拜1680-1800)(精)/新全球文明史译丛. Zhejiang University Press, 2022.

Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.

La Recherche dix-huitièmiste: Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des Lumières, co-edited with Stéphane Pujol and Ludmila Pimenova, Paris and Geneva, Honoré Champion and Slatkine, 1999.

 

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