The Language Question under Napoleon / War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 (PDF)
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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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Stewart McCain
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stewart McCain
- 2017, 1st ed. 2018, 307 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 3319549367
- ISBN-13: 9783319549361
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.2017
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“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 also of cultural imperialism in both theory and practice.” (Joseph Clarke, French History, Vol. 32 (03), September, 2018)
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