Patrick Karl O'Brien (D.Phil.Oxon.1966), FBA, FRHS, FRSA. His academic career as a lecturer, reader and Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research has been spent at the universities of London and Oxford. He has published 5 and edited 16 books and more 100 articles in this field.

This book is an collaborative endeavour by senior scholars in European economic history to answer the question of what might be concluded about the nature and significance of economic connections between the long run growth of national economies and their participation in an interlude of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?