David Bell

David A. Bell holds the Lapidus Chair in the Department of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2010. He is the author of seven books, including Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020; French translation published by Fayard in 2022 under the title Le culte des chefs : Charisme et pouvoir à l’âge des révolutions), and The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It (Houghton Mifflin, 2007; French translation published by Champ Vallon in 2010 under the title La première guerre totale : L’Europe de Napoléon et la naissance de la guerre moderne).

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