Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, his publications include a three-volume biography of Napoleon and Violence: A Very Short Introduction (2021). He is the general editor of a four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence (2020), and co-editor of The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (2021).