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...

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.