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Napoleon's Integration of Europe (Paperback)
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Napoleon's Integration of Europe (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.
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