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In this fascinating study Michael Rowe focuses on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe. It brings together the research findings of specialists in the histories of Europe's constituent nations and states during a momentous period in their development. Thematically focused and integrated within a comparative framework, the individual contributions explore areas as diverse as Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia. What impact did Napoleon have on these nations, and how did they respond to his challenge?
List of contents
List of Maps Preface List of Contributors Introduction; M.Rowe Confidence from below? Collaboration and resistance in the Napoleonic Plebiscites; M.Crook State-Formation and Resistance. The Army and Local Elites in Napoleonic France; A.Forrest Centre & Periphery in Napoleonic Italy. The Nature of French Rule in the Départements Réunis , 1800-1814; M.Broers The Many Faces of Modernity. French Rule in Southern Italy, 1806-1815; J.Davis Popular Mobilization in Spain, 1808-10: a Re-Assessment; C.Esdaile Centralisation versus Particularism in the 'Third Germany'; A.Fahrmeir Napoleonic Germany and State Formation; J.Breuilly Opportunity or Threat? Napoleon and the Hungarian Estates; O.Szakály The Attitudes of the Polish Political Elite towards the State in the Period of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815; J.Czubaty Russia and Napoleon: State, Society and the Nation; J.Hartley State-formation, Public Resistance and Nation-building in Scandinavia in the Era of Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815; K.Zetterberg The British State and the Napoleonic Wars, c.1800-1815; P.Jupp Index
About the author
JOHN BREUILLY is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK
MICHAEL BROERS is Reader in European History at the University of Aberdeen, UK
MALCOLM CROOK is Professor of French History at Keele University, UK
JAROSLAW CZUBATY is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Warsaw University, Poland
JOHN A. DAVIS is Professor of History and Director of European Studies at the University of Conneticut, USA, and also holds the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History
CHARLES ESDAILE is Senior Lecturer in History at the Unversity of Liverpool, UK
ANDREAS FAHRMEIR is a Researcher of Nineteenth-Century Social and Legal history
ALAN FORREST is Professor of Modern History at the University of York, UK
JANET HARTLEY is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
PETER JUPP is Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, UK
ORSOLYA SZAKÁLY is a Junior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
KENT ZETTERBERG is Professor in Political History and Security Politics at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
In this fascinating study Michael Rowe focuses on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe. It brings together the research findings of specialists in the histories of Europe's constituent nations and states during a momentous period in their development. Thematically focused and integrated within a comparative framework, the individual contributions explore areas as diverse as Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia. What impact did Napoleon have on these nations, and how did they respond to his challenge?
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'A geographically wide-ranging, thematically thought-provoking and historiographically-timely essay collection by a team of distinguished scholars which should appeal to both specialists and students.' - Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
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'A geographically wide-ranging, thematically thought-provoking and historiographically-timely essay collection by a team of distinguished scholars which should appeal to both specialists and students.' - Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
