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The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture

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Editors:
  1. Michael Broers

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Peter Hicks

    1. Fondation Napoléon, France
      Bath University, UK

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  3. Agustin Guimerá

    1. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

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Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Napoleon, His Empire, Our Europe and the ‘New Napoleonic History’

    1. Introduction: Napoleon, His Empire, Our Europe and the ‘New Napoleonic History’

      • Michael Broers
      Pages 1-17

  3. France, 1799–1814

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Broers
      Pages 21-23

    3. Imperial France in 1808 and beyond

      • Thierry Lentz
      Pages 24-37

    4. The Origins of the Napoleonic System of Repression

      • Howard G. Brown
      Pages 38-48

    5. Policing, Rural Revolt and Conscription in Napoleonic France

      • Alan Forrest
      Pages 49-58

    6. Small State, Big Society: The Involvement of Citizens in Local Government in Nineteenth-Century France

      • Marie-Cécile Thoral
      Pages 59-69

    7. Napoleon as a Politician

      • Peter Hicks
      Pages 70-81

  4. The Low Countries, the Rhineland and Switzerland, 1792–1814

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Broers
      Pages 85-87

    3. The Napoleonic Civil Code: The Belgian Case

      • Michael Rapport
      Pages 88-99

    4. The Dutch Case: The Kingdom of Holland and the Imperial Departments

      • Matthijs Lok, Martijn van der Burg
      Pages 100-111

    5. Resistance against Napoleon in the Kingdom of Holland

      • Johan Joor
      Pages 112-122

    6. A Tale of Two Cities: Aachen and Cologne in Napoleonic Europe

      • Michael Rowe
      Pages 123-131

    7. The Swiss Case in the Napoleonic Empire

      • Gabriele B. Clemens
      Pages 132-142

  5. Central and Eastern Europe: The Confederation of the Rhine, Westphalia and the Hanseatic Departments, Prussia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Broers
      Pages 145-147

    3. Resistance to Napoleonic Reform in the Grand Duchy of Berg, the Kingdom of Westphalia and the South German States

      • Ute Planert
      Pages 148-159

    4. Napoleonic Rule in German Central Europe: Compliance and Resistance

      • Katherine Aaslestad
      Pages 160-172
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About this book

Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Michael Broers

  • Fondation Napoléon, France

    Peter Hicks

  • Bath University, UK

    Peter Hicks

  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

    Agustin Guimerá

About the editors

KATHARINE AASLESTAD Professor at the University of West Virginia, USA JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ JUNCO Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain JEAN-RENE AYMES Professor at the Université Paris III, France MARTIJN VAN DER BERG Lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands HOWARD BROWN Professor at Binghamton University, USA GABRIELE CLEMENS Professor at the Universität des Sarrelandes, Germany FERNANDO DORES COSTA Professor at the Instituto superior de Ciencias del Trabajo y Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal ALAN FORREST Professor at the University of York, UK ALEX GRAB Professor at the University of Maine, USA KAREN HAGEMANN James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA JOHAN JOOR Historian and Honorary research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam ANNIE JOURDAN Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands EMILIO LA PARRA LOPEZ Professor at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain THIERRY LENTZ Director of the Fondation Napoléon, France MATTHIJS LOK Assistant Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands MARTA LORENTE Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain UTE PLANERT Professor at the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany JOSÉ MARÍA PORTILLO Professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain ANNA-MARIA RAO Professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, Italy MICHAEL RAPPORT Professor at the University ofStirling, UK MICHAEL ROWE Senior Lecturer at King's College, London, UK REINHARD A. STAUBER Professor at the Universität von Klagenfurt, Austria MARIE-CÉCILE THORAL Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK NICOLA TODOROV Teacher at the Lycée Gustave Flaubert and Lecturer at the University of Rouen, France

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture

  • Editors: Michael Broers, Peter Hicks, Agustin Guimerá

  • Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271396

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24131-2Published: 10 October 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31703-5Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27139-6Published: 10 October 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6699

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 332

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, History of France, History of Military

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