Napoleon's Integration of Europe
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administrative integration under Napoleon
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bureaucratic rationalisation
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Cisalpine Republic
comparative empire history
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Eugene De Beauharnais
European state formation
French domination
Government Milieux
Illyrian Provinces
imperial governance studies
Joseph De Maistre
Ligurian Republic
Merlin De Douai
modernisation theory Europe
Napoleon's Integration
Napoleonic Administration
Napoleonic Despotism
Napoleonic Experience
Napoleonic period
Napoleonic Regime
political-military accounts
resistance to occupation
Rhenish Confederation
Russian Campaign
Santa Maria Nuova
Van Hogendorp
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415755535
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe explores the implications of such a project for France and its relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism, but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of each nation state.
Stuart J. Woolf (University of Essex) (Author)
