Contributor
Broers, Michael.
Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Descriptionxvi, 332 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: Napoleon, his empire, our Europe and the 'new Napoleonic history' / Michael Broers -- Part I: France, 1799-1814. Introduction / Michael Broers ; Imperial France in 1808 and beyond / Thierry Lentz ; The origins of the Napoleonic system of repression / Howard G. Brown ; Policing, rural revolt and conscription in Napoleonic France / Alan Forrest ; Small state, big society : the involvement of citizens in local government in nineteenth-century France / Marie-Cécile Thoral ; Napoleon as a politician / Peter Hicks -- Part II: The Low countries, the Rhineland and Switzerland, 1792-1814. Introduction / Michael Broers ; The Napoleonic Civil Code : the Belgian case / Michael Rapport ; The Dutch case : the kingdom of Holland and the imperial departments / Matthijs Lok and Martijn van der Burg ; Resistance against Napoleon in the kingdom of Holland / Johan Joor ; A tale of two cities : Aachen and Cologne in Napoleonic Europe / Michael Rowe ; The Swiss case in the Napoleonic empire / Gabriele B. Clemens -- PART III: Central and eastern Europe : the Confederation of the Rhine, Westphalia and the Hanseatic departments, Prussia. Introduction / Michael Broers. Resistance to Napoleonic reform in the Grand Duchy of Berg, the kingdom of Westphalia and the South German states / Ute Planert ; Napoleonic rule in German Central Europe : compliance and resistance / Katherine Aaslestad ; The Napoleonic administrative system in the kingdom of Westphalia / Nicola P. Todorov ; A valorous nation in a holy war : war mobilization, religion and political culture in Prussia, 1807 to 1815 / Karen Hagemann -- PART IV: The Italian peninsula and the Illyrian provinces. Introduction / Michael Broers ; The Napoleonic kingdom of Italy : state administration / Alexander Grab ; The imperial departments of Napoleonic Italy : resistance and collaboration / Michael Broers ; The feudal question in the kingdom of Naples / Anna Maria Rao ; The Illyrian provinces / Reinhard A. Stauber --
Note:PART V: Spain and Portugal, 1800-14. Introduction / Michael Broers ; The monarchy at Bayonne and the constitution of Cadiz / Emilio La Parra López ; Popular resistance in Spain / Jean-René Aymes ; Imperial Spain / José M. Portillo Valdés ; The new Spanish councils / Marta Lorente ; Political paradoxes in Napoleonic Europe : the Portuguese case / Fernando Dores Costa ; Conclusion: The Napoleonic empire in the age of revolutions : the contrast of two national representations / Annie Jourdan.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
