2022-07-13
1 小时 23 分钟All right, today I have the pleasure of interviewing Professor Alexander Mika Beretze,
who is a professor of history and the Ruth Herring Noll Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University.
And he's the author of the Napoleonic Wars.
a global history.
This is absolutely fascinating book.
It was unlike any other history book I've read in the sense that it was just global in a scope and you're covering such an interesting career in history.
So first of all,
can you give my audience a little bit of background on yourself and on the Napoleonic Wars?
Yes.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's a delight to be here.
I'm originally from a country of Georgia.
And they usually tell people that, no, it's not the state of Georgia, right?
It's the country of Georgia in Eastern Europe.
A small state sandwiched between Russia and Turkey with a rather complex and diverse and turbulent history.
But as most small nations, it is oftentimes kind of lost on the pages of history.
And of course, when I embarked on this career to become a professional historian,
I've always wanted to see where my people kind of fit in the larger scheme of things.
And I was oftentimes frustrated, especially working on the Revolutionary Napoleonic Era,
that the huge transformations that this period witnessed in Caucasus were not properly addressed.