Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: 20,000 Fools

   1. Introduction: 20,000 Fools

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3. Office Politics

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   2. A Revolution in Administration

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   3. Revolutionary Time and Space

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   4. Telling Tales

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4. Bureaucrats in Bourgeois Society

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   2. Civil Servant, Civil Society

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   3. Surrogate Fathers, Suitable Sons

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   4. The Social Politics of Bureaucracy

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   5. Coda and Conclusion

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5. Back Matter

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Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity.

• France
• reform
• revolution

• Department of History, Auburn University, USA

  Ralph Kingston

RALPH KINGSTON is an assistant professor of History at Auburn University, USA. He previously held positions at Trinity College Dublin, and as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. His article, The Bricks and Mortar of Revolutionary Administration, published in French History, was awarded the SEASECS Percy V. Adams prize.

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