The Savage State: Humans, Nature and Governance in Eighteenth-Century Corsica

Joshua Meeks is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy in the College of Distance Education at the US Naval War College. Previously he worked at Northwest University in the Department of History and Political Science after receiving his Ph.D. in History from Florida State University as part of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. He has written on the Mediterranean during the French Revolutionary Wars and broadly on the Napoleonic era, in both cases with a special interest in the role of small powers in times of Great Power Competition. Other interests include global history, maritime history and teaching using role-playing exercises and games.