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Napoleon's Integration of Europe

by Stuart Woolf

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Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe explores the implications of such a project for France and its relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism, but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of each nation state.… (more)
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Chi fu davvero Napoleone, lo “spirito del Mondo a cavalloâ€?, come apparve a Hegel, oppure un ufficiale meschino e arrivista, come lo dipinse Tolstoj in Guerra e Pace?
Tra grandi vittorie riportate sui campi di battaglia, nuovi assetti politici e importanti riforme, fino alla definitiva sconfitta, abbiamo il ritratto di uno dei protagonisti assoluti della Storia, un uomo che di sé disse: “Afferro gli eventi e li spingo lontano fin dove possono arrivareâ€?.
La Francia e l’Europa; gli strumenti e le pratiche della conquista: esercito, diplomazie e integrazione amministrativa; la politica economica; il blocco continentale; resistenze e reazioni.
La radicale rottura politica con il passato, il tentativo di creare e consolidare nuove fedeltà al posto dei tradizionali legami passivi di autorità, l’ambiziosa aspirazione a forgiare, da un passato europeo molto eterogeneo, una nuova identità sul modello della Francia napoleonica: tutto questo agì come una forza liberatrice per il Vecchio Continente e le sue ripercussioni si fecero sentire per molto tempo. L’età napoleonica lasciò un’eredità che trascese tutte le frontiere nazionali e impose agli Stati europei durante la Restaurazione un’unità di comportamento politico senza precedenti. ( )
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Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe explores the implications of such a project for France and its relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism, but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of each nation state.

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