The Language Question under Napoleon by Stewart Mccain
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.-
The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
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French Rule in the States of Parma, 1796-1814
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Wellington's Men in Australia
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French Revolutionary Lives
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Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe
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The Yeomanry Cavalry and Military Identities in Rural Britain, 1815-1914
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The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective
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Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
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Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians
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From the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire
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Scandinavia and Bismarck
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Scandinavia After Napoleon
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France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean
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Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe
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Conflict, Corruption and Class in Russian-Occupied Wallachia, 1828-1836
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Napoleonic Governance and the Integration of Europe
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The French Catalan People in Revolution and War, 1789-95
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The French Campaign in Egypt, 1798-1801
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The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion
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Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark and Norway, 1807-1815
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The French Debate
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The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
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War, Demobilization and Memory
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Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society
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From Valmy to Waterloo
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Republics at War, 1776-1840
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Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40
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Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe
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The Bee and the Eagle
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Britain and Wellington's Army
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Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
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Gender, War and Politics
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War, Public Opinion and Policy in Britain, France and the Netherlands, 1785-1815
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Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
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Napoleon's Empire
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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901
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Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War
“Stewart McCain’s richly researched and thought-provoking new book is the latest contribution to the scholarly conversation on the Revolutionary invention of French linguistic nationalism… The Language Question under Napoleon will be required reading for scholars interested in the intersection between language, nationalism, and state formation in France.” (Paul Cohen, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (217), November, 2019)
“Drawing on impressively wide-ranging research in national and provincial archives, this book painstakingly reconstructs the contours of Napoleonic language policy as it evolved and was applied throughout the First Empire. … McCain’s study presents an admirably nuanced analysis, not just of the politics of language in Napoleonic France, but alsoof cultural imperialism in both theory and practice.” (Joseph Clarke, French History, Vol. 32 (03), September, 2018)
“Drawing on impressively wide-ranging research in national and provincial archives, this book painstakingly reconstructs the contours of Napoleonic language policy as it evolved and was applied throughout the First Empire. … McCain’s study presents an admirably nuanced analysis, not just of the politics of language in Napoleonic France, but alsoof cultural imperialism in both theory and practice.” (Joseph Clarke, French History, Vol. 32 (03), September, 2018)
Stewart McCain is Programme Director in History at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK, and has previously taught European History at the Universities of Winchester, Aston and Oxford. Grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Historical Society have supported his research, which has previously appeared in French History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783319855257 |
| ISBN 10 | 3319855255 |
| Title | The Language Question under Napoleon |
| Author | Stewart Mccain |
| Series | War Culture And Society 1750-1850 Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Year published | 2018-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 307 |
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