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The Language Question under Napoleon (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Language Question under Napoleon (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
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This book offers a new perspective on the cultural politics of the
Napoleonic Empire by exploring the issue of language within four
pivotal institutions - the school, the army, the courtroom and the
church. Based on wide-ranging research in archival and published
sources, Stewart McCain demonstrates that the Napoleonic State was
in reality fractured by disagreements over how best to govern a
population characterized by enormous linguistic diversity.
Napoleonic officials were not simply cultural imperialists; many
acted as culture-brokers, emphasizing their familiarity with the
local language to secure employment with the state, and pointing to
linguistic and cultural particularism to justify departures from
which what others might have considered desirable practice by the
regime. This book will be of interest to scholars of the Napoleonic
Empire, and of European state-building and nationalisms.
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