The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814 Cultural Imperialism in a European Context?

Cultural imperialism and acculturation find close counterparts in many of the policies and attitudes of Napoleonic administrators in their Italian provinces, explored here from the rich archival sources of the Parisian and Italian archives, long neglected by scholars. Broers repositions the context in which the Napoleonic empire can be studied, and reconfigures the political and historical geography of Italy, in the century before its Unification in 1859.

Michael Broers is a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Among his other books are The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy, 1802-1814: The War Against God (2002) and Europe Under Napoleon (1996). He was a Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in Fall, 2003.

Introduction: Never the Twain Shall Meet * The Protagonists * The Territory * Cultural Imperialism: From Integration to Assimilation * PART I: THE FRENCH INVASIONS, 1796-1809 * The Old Order * The First Italian Restorations, 1799-1809 * Forging the New Regime * PART II: THE PHANTOM OF INTEGRATION. RALLIEMENT AND AMALGAME IN THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENTS OF ITALY * 'In the Eye of the Storm': Law and Order in Napoleonic Italy * Denunciation and the Limits of Ralliement: Mentalit‚ Baroque in the New Regime * Amalgame: The Problem of Integration within the Imperial Administration * PART III: ASSIMILATION: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT? * The Myth of the Lazy Native * Towards a Gallic Laager * A Eurocentric Colonialism? * Conclusion: A Subaltern Italy? * Bibliography * Index
Introduction: Never the Twain Shall Meet * The Protagonists * The Territory * Cultural Imperialism: From Integration to Assimilation * PART I: THE FRENCH INVASIONS, 1796-1809 * The Old Order * The First Italian Restorations, 1799-1809 * Forging the New Regime * PART II: THE PHANTOM OF INTEGRATION. RALLIEMENT AND AMALGAME IN THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENTS OF ITALY * 'In the Eye of the Storm': Law and Order in Napoleonic Italy * Denunciation and the Limits of Ralliement: Mentalit‚ Baroque in the New Regime * Amalgame: The Problem of Integration within the Imperial Administration * PART III: ASSIMILATION: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT? * The Myth of the Lazy Native * Towards a Gallic Laager * A Eurocentric Colonialism? * Conclusion: A Subaltern Italy? * Bibliography * Index