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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Language Question under Napoleon
  name:
    name part: McCain, Stewart.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 307 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Language, Empire and the New Regime -- 2. Language under the Administrative Gaze - State, Statistics and Social Knowledge under Napoleon -- 3. Language, Local Knowledge and the Napoleonic State -- 4. Language and Education under Napoleon -- 5. Cultures of Language and Military Service under Napoleon -- 6. Language, Law and the Legal Profession: Negotiating Cultural Identity in an Imperial Institution -- 7. Organised Religion, Language and the French State from the Old Regime to Napoleon -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Stewart McCain.
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-1492-
  subject:
    topic: France-History
  subject:
    topic: Civilization-History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: History of Early Modern Europe
  subject:
    topic: History of France
  subject:
    topic: Cultural History
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  classification: D203.2-475
  classification: 940.903
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: War, Culture and Society, 1750 -1850
  identifier: 9783319549361
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54936-1
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    record creation date: 171104
    record change date: 20191029021132.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-54936-1