Napoleon: Conquest, Reform and Reorganisation

by Emsley; Clive

• ISBN13: 9780582437951
• ISBN10: 0582437954
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Probably no other single individual has had such a profound impact on the development of modern France and on that of nineteenth century Europe as Napoleon. Clive Emsley brings the subject up-to-date historiographically and provides an accessible introduction to the post revolutionary period in European history of 1799 to 1815. . Provides a succinct summary of Napoleon's career, the difficulties of assessing it, and the current debates surrounding it. Contains a wide selection of primary source material and there are few similar collections of such material on the Napoleonic period available in English Usefully divided into three distinct parts: his career, his impact on France, his impact on Europe.

Author Biography

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Maps	ix
Chronology	xi
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION	1	(6)
`My History is Made Up of Facts, and Words Alone Cannot Destroy Them'	3	(4)
PART TWO: NARRATIVE	7	(66)
The Career and the Man	9	(23)
Making a Name	9	(3)
Mastering France	12	(5)
Mastering Europe	17	(3)
Losing Europe	20	(3)
Losing France	23	(2)
Mastering History	25	(3)
Understanding the Man	28	(4)
Reorganising France	32	(25)
Foundations	32	(5)
Finances and the Economy	37	(6)
Centralisation and Surveillance	43	(4)
The Code Napoleon	47	(2)
Church and School	49	(4)
Dissent and Disorder	53	(4)
Reorganising Europe	57	(16)
The Scope of the Empire	57	(5)
Support	62	(2)
Opposition	64	(9)
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT	73	(6)
Results and Meanings	75	(4)
Legacy	75	(2)
Assessment	77	(2)
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS	79	(37)
Glossary	116	(2)
Who's Who	118	(9)
The Revolutionary Calendar	127	(1)
Bibliography	128	(4)
Index	132