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Napoleon's Legacy - Problems of Government in Restoration Europe (Paperback)
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Napoleon's Legacy - Problems of Government in Restoration Europe (Paperback)
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This ground-breaking, revisionist collection of essays, based on
the most recent research, provides a long-needed reassessment of
the legacy of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars upon
the governments of Restoration Europe. Traditionally the
Restoration has been regarded by historians as a period in which
European governments returned to the reactionary policies which
prevailed before the upheavals of 1789, and which involved an
outright rejection of the reforms of the Napoleonic era. In this
book, leading historians challenge this interpretation and
emphasize the sometimes surprising loyalty shown to Napoleonic
policies of modernization by Restoration governments.The problems
of dealing with new ideologies, accommodating the interests of old
elites, and keeping the benefits of recent reforms were broadly
similar across Europe, and provide a connecting theme throughout
the volume. However, the nature of governmental response was never
uniform. The essays explore these varieties of response, both
through detailed case studies and more general surveys, and address
issues such as policing and censorship, revolutionary symbolism,
elite formation and bureaucratic structures in France, Spain,
Italy, Germany and Poland, making a fascinating contribution to the
study of the nature of political change in the modern period.'A
dazzling collection of articles by the sharpest young historians in
the field [that] overturns much of the received wisdom about Europe
after Napoleon'Tim Blanning, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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