The Language Question under Napoleon

• Main Author: McCain, Stewart (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750 -1850
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; France-History.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; Imperialism.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of France.; Cultural History.; Social History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

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...