Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 285 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030973407
Series Statement:
War, culture and society, 1750 -1850
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prelude to Napoleon -- Ralliement Avant la Lettre -- Administration, Legislation and Tax Collection -- Agriculture and Industry -- Cultural Policies -- The University of Parma -- The Education of the Infant -- Dashed Hopes and the End of Reforms -- Chapter 3: Parma and Bonaparte -- Revolutionary Waves and Realpolitik -- Furti d'arte -- Chapter 4: From Duchies of Parma to States of Parma -- Du Tillot bis -- Legal Systems and Administration -- Tax Collection -- Economy -- Cultural Reforms -- Napoleon's Visit -- Monks, Nuns and Financial Headaches -- A Well-Meaning Proconsul -- Chapter 5: Watershed: The Insurrection -- Volunteer National Guards -- Revulsion and Excitement -- The Events -- Military Repression -- Agostino Botti: Service and Self-Interest -- An Accidental Martyr -- Chapter 6: Explanatory Narratives: Brigandage -- Local Italian Sources -- Anti-French Sentiments -- French Sources: Foreign Intervention and Malevolent Priests -- Streamlining Information -- Professional Incompetence -- Brigandage -- The People -- The Perils of Collaboration -- An Unexpected Stumbling Point -- Chapter 7: Pacification -- Pragmatism and Ambiguity -- La douceur -- Rallying to the French -- Napoleon's Reaction -- Crackdown -- Chapter 8: Order into Chaos -- Institutional Overhaul -- Economy and Taxation -- Conscription -- Velvet Gloves -- Amnesty -- A Kind and Paternalistic Administration -- Sbirri: Past and Present -- Chapter 9: Wooing the Elites -- The Heart -- The Mind -- An Exemplary Bureaucrat -- Chapter 10: Elite Collaboration -- Modernization -- A Chance Like No Other -- Obsequiousness and Equivocation -- Accommodation -- The Limits of Persuasion -- Chapter 11: The End of the Road: Conclusions -- The Remains of the Day -- xxx -- Bibliography -- A -- B.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030973391
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harsanyi, Doina Pasca French rule in the states of Parma, 1796-1814 Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 ISBN 9783030973391
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3030973395
Language:
English
Keywords:
Provinz Parma
;
Geschichte 1796-1814
