Frederick C. Schneid is Professor of History at High Point University. He is the author of Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (Praeger, 2002) and Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State and Society, 1800-1815 (1995). He serves on the board of directors of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe and is southern regional director for the Society for Military History.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsCampaign and Battle MapsOne NapoleonTwo France and SpainThree Spain, France, and War with EnglandFour Napoleon and Germany, 1792-1803Five Napoleon, Prussia, and German Politics, 1803-1805Six Austria, Italy, and the MediterraneanSeven The Third CoalitionEight August-September 1805Nine From the Rhine to the InnTen November 1805Eleven Austerlitz, Pressburg, and PrussiaNotesBibliographyIndex

[T]his is a book about the complicated interplay of economics and diplomacy that occurred between 1796 and 1805. While that might seem potentially mundane, here it is not. And that is the strongest recommendation of the work. It should become mandatory reading for those of us in the Napoleonic field, but it would also be useful for giving graduate or upper-level undergraduates a firm understanding of the period's alliance systems and national finances….Napoleon's Conquest of Europe is an excellent survey of the diplomatic and economic considerations that lead to the great events of 1805. The book would serve upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, buffs and experts equally well and certainly belongs in any good library collection.

Frederick C. Schneid is Professor of History at High Point University. He is the author of Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (Praeger, 2002) and Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State and Society, 1800-1815 (1995). He serves on the board of directors of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe and is southern regional director for the Society for Military History.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsCampaign and Battle MapsOne NapoleonTwo France and SpainThree Spain, France, and War with EnglandFour Napoleon and Germany, 1792-1803Five Napoleon, Prussia, and German Politics, 1803-1805Six Austria, Italy, and the MediterraneanSeven The Third CoalitionEight August-September 1805Nine From the Rhine to the InnTen November 1805Eleven Austerlitz, Pressburg, and PrussiaNotesBibliographyIndex

[T]his is a book about the complicated interplay of economics and diplomacy that occurred between 1796 and 1805. While that might seem potentially mundane, here it is not. And that is the strongest recommendation of the work. It should become mandatory reading for those of us in the Napoleonic field, but it would also be useful for giving graduate or upper-level undergraduates a firm understanding of the period's alliance systems and national finances….Napoleon's Conquest of Europe is an excellent survey of the diplomatic and economic considerations that lead to the great events of 1805. The book would serve upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, buffs and experts equally well and certainly belongs in any good library collection.

Frederick C. Schneid is Professor of History at High Point University. He is the author of Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (Praeger, 2002) and Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State and Society, 1800-1815 (1995). He serves on the board of directors of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe and is southern regional director for the Society for Military History.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsCampaign and Battle MapsOne NapoleonTwo France and SpainThree Spain, France, and War with EnglandFour Napoleon and Germany, 1792-1803Five Napoleon, Prussia, and German Politics, 1803-1805Six Austria, Italy, and the MediterraneanSeven The Third CoalitionEight August-September 1805Nine From the Rhine to the InnTen November 1805Eleven Austerlitz, Pressburg, and PrussiaNotesBibliographyIndex

[T]his is a book about the complicated interplay of economics and diplomacy that occurred between 1796 and 1805. While that might seem potentially mundane, here it is not. And that is the strongest recommendation of the work. It should become mandatory reading for those of us in the Napoleonic field, but it would also be useful for giving graduate or upper-level undergraduates a firm understanding of the period's alliance systems and national finances….Napoleon's Conquest of Europe is an excellent survey of the diplomatic and economic considerations that lead to the great events of 1805. The book would serve upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, buffs and experts equally well and certainly belongs in any good library collection.