| Description |
xiv, 230 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: L'épisode napoléonien, aspects intérieurs, 1799-1815. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART ONE: THE NAPOLEONIC BLUEPRINT FOR THE STATE AND SOCIETY: THE REGIME: Political institutions: structure and evolution -- The politics of power -- A COUNTRY UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE TUTELAGE: The prefects -- The attempt to control society -- The fiscal system and its agents -- THE SOCIAL BASES OF THE REGIME: The political and administrative personnel -- Napoleonic elites: nobility and notables -- PART TWO: FRANCE FROM 1800 TO 1815: The obverse of the regime: elements of opposition -- A population in slower growth -- THE SOCIAL CLASSES: The new privileged -- The fate of the old nobility -- The ways of bourgeois advancement -- The France of manual labor -- ECONOMIC LIFE: TAKE-OFF OR STAGNATION? : Uncertainty concerning the agricultural economy -- The misfortune of large-scale maritime commerce -- Early industrialization -- Toward a new economic geography of France -- AFTER THE REVOLUTION: FAITH, SENSIBILITY, REASON: A catholic revival? -- The components of the antirationalist reaction -- The scientific movement of the early Nineteenth Century. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
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| Added Title |
Épisode napoléonien, aspects intérieurs, 1799-1815. English
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| ISBN |
0691053332 |
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0691007896 (paperback) |
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