Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859732445 ISBN 13 : 9781859732441

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Laven University of Reading Lucy Riall University of London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859732445
• ISBN 13: 9781859732441
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Laven David, Riall Lucy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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