Napoleon and His Empire brings together some of the worlds leading Napoleonic historians, and is born out of a reflection on the Empire two hundred years after its foundation in May 1804. It provides a timely overview of current trends in research and historiography. It not only revisits traditional themes like Napoleons revolutionary credentials, the plebiscite for the Empire and the Continental System, but also looks at new research on questions of citizenship, gender, education and local government. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006044374-d.html. Napoleon and His Empire brings together some of the worlds leading Napoleonic historians, and is born out of a reflection on the Empire two hundred years after its foundation in May 1804. It provides a timely overview of current trends in research and historiography. It not only revisits traditional themes like Napoleons revolutionary credentials, the plebiscite for the Empire and the Continental System, but also looks at new research on questions of citizenship, gender, education and local government.
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KATHERINE AASLESTAD Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA HOWARD G. BROWN Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA MALCOLM CROOK Professor of French History at Keele University, UK GAVIN DALY Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia JOHN A. DAVIS Professor of History and Director of European Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA JOHN DUNNE Lecturer in History and Director of Research in Humanities at the University of Greenwich, UK ANDREAS FAHRMEIR Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cologne, France ALEXANDER GRAB Professor of History at the University of Maine, USA DAVID P. JORDAN Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA UTE PLANERT Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tubingen, Germany MICHAEL ROWE Lecturer of Modern European History at Queen's University, Belfast, UK MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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| Preface |
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| About the Authors |
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| Napoleon and His Empire: Some Issues and Perspectives |
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Philip G. Dwyer and Alan Forrest |
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1 The Plebiscite on the Empire |
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2 Napoleon as Revolutionary |
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3 'Little Emperors?' Investigating Prefectoral Rule in the Departments |
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4 Power on the Periphery: EliteState Relations in the Napoleonic Empire |
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5 Special Tribunals and the Napoleonic Security State |
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6 Political Prisoners and State Prisons in Napoleonic France |
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7 Revisiting the Continental System: Exploitation to Self-Destruction in the Napoleonic Empire |
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8 Conscription, Economic Exploitation and Religion in Napoleonic Germany |
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9 Public Education in Napoleonic Italy |
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| 10 Divided Destinies? Napoleonic Rule in Northern and Southern Italy |
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| 11 Defining the Citizen |
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| 12 Napoleon and the 'Modernisation' of Germany |
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KATHERINE AASLESTAD Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA HOWARD G. BROWN Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA MALCOLM CROOK Professor of French History at Keele University, UK GAVIN DALY Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia JOHN A. DAVIS Professor of History and Director of European Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA JOHN DUNNE Lecturer in History and Director of Research in Humanities at the University of Greenwich, UK ANDREAS FAHRMEIR Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cologne, France ALEXANDER GRAB Professor of History at the University of Maine, USA DAVID P. JORDAN Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA UTE PLANERT Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tübingen, Germany MICHAEL ROWE Lecturer of Modern European History at Queen's University, Belfast, UK MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
