Alexander Mikaberidze is Associate Professor of European History at Louisiana State University at Shreveport. He is the author of several books, including The Burning of Moscow: Napoleon's Trial by Fire 1812 and The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov.
* Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Prelude
* Chapter 2 The Eighteenth-Century International Order
* Chapter 3 The War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797
* Chapter 4 The Making of "La Grande Nation," 1797-1802
* Chapter 5 The Second Coalition War and the Origins of the "Great
Game"
* Chapter 6 The Rites of Peace, 1801-1802
* Chapter 7 The Road to War, 1802-1803
* Chapter 8 The Rupture, 1803
* Chapter 9 The Elephant Against the Whale: France and Britain at War,
1803-1804
* Chapter 10 The Emperor's Conquest, 1805-1807
* Chapter 11 "War Through Other Means": Europe and the Continental
System
* Chapter 12 The Struggle for Portugal and Spain, 1807-1812
* Chapter 13 The Grand Empire, 1807-1812
* Chapter 14 The Emperor's Last Triumph
* Chapter 15 The Northern Question, 1807-1811
* Chapter 16 "An Empire Besieged": The Ottomans and the Napoleonic Wars
* Chapter 17 The Qajar Connection: Iran and the European Powers,
1804-1814
* Chapter 18 Britain's Expeditionary Warfare, 1805-1810
* Chapter 19 Britain's Eastern Empire, 1800-1815
* Chapter 20 The Western Question? Struggle for the Americas, 1808-1815
* Chapter 21 The Turning Point, 1812
* Chapter 22 The Fall of the French Empire
* Chapter 23 The War and Peace, 1814-1815
* Chapter 24 The Aftermath of the Great War
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index
