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This book offers a new perspective on the cultural politics of the Napoleonic Empire by exploring the issue of language within four pivotal institutions - the school, the army, the courtroom and the church. Based on wide-ranging research in archival and published sources, Stewart McCain demonstrates that the Napoleonic State was in reality fractured by disagreements over how best to govern a population characterized by enormous linguistic diversity. Napoleonic officials were not simply cultural imperialists; many acted as culture-brokers, emphasizing their familiarity with the local language to secure employment with the state, and pointing to linguistic and cultural particularism to justify departures from which what others might have considered desirable practice by the regime. This book will be of interest to scholars of the Napoleonic Empire, and of European state-building and nationalisms. Social History France Political Science General History Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Europe Series Editors’ Preface 6 Acknowledgements 8 Contents 9 Abbreviations 10 List of Figures 11 List of Tables 12 Chapter 1 Language, Empire, and the New Regime 13 Language, Nation and Society 18 Refere

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Author

Stewart McCain (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Springer [distributor

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319549354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities