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This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire. Shifting attention away from political repression, it focuses on the men who embodied this institution and made it work day-to-day. Based on extensive archival research, the book shows how the Napoleonic police were indeed an instrument of power, but also a profession and a service to the public. Traditionally associated with the image of Joseph Fouché and with political surveillance, the Napoleonic police, when studied from the local level, thus reveals itself to be much more complex and oriented simultaneously towards both the preservation of the regime and maintaining good urban order.
This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in the conflict has been largely forgotten. Yet the war affected all European and extra-European police forces. Despite their diversity, all were confronted with transnational factors and forms of disorder, and suffered generally from mass-conscription. During the conflict, societies and states were faced with a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude with mass mechanised killing on the battle fie...
The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale. When Napoleon died, the map of many areas had completely changed, making room for Russia's ascendency and Britain's rise to world power.
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to discuss the different aspects of the origins of the Napoleonic Wars, their international political implications and the concrete ways the Empire was governed. This volume begins by looking at the political context that produced the Napoleonic Wars and setting it within the broader context of eighteenth century great power politics in the Age of Revolution. It considers the administration and governance of the Empire, including with France's client states and the role of the Bonaparte family in the Empire. Further chapters in the volume examine the war aims of the various protagonists and offer an overall assessment of the nature of war in this period.
In the history of the development of Polish law and administration, the short period of the constitutional Duchy of Warsaw, and next of the Kingdom of Poland, was a special time. This is because it was the only moment in the 19th century when the Polish elites gained an opportunity to concentrate their efforts on the organization of the modern state machinery. This book presents the process of restructuring the administrative structures following the collapse of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and before the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815. The author focuses on the approach of the Polish elites to the nascent modern state, increasing importance of administration within it and to the young Polish bureaucrats.
Proposant la transcription et l'édition du registre aux actes de police de Mathieu de Nantes, cet ouvrage représente une source extraordinaire pour l’histoire de la police napoléonienne, pour l’histoire des pratiques administratives et pour le quotidien d
L'objectif de ce livre est d’observer le fonctionnement de la justice dans l’arrondissement judiciaire de Mons durant les deux guerres mondiales, face aux douloureuses réalités des collaborations et des résistances avec l’occupant allemand. Les conséquences de ces deux occupations se font sentir dès le mois d’août 1914 et jusqu’aux dernières suites pénales de l’épuration de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1961). Au fil de six contributions – deux sur la première guerre, quatre sur la seconde –, occupations et libérations sont abordées comme des réalités vécues au quotidien par des gens ordinaires. Les tensions de la première occupation sont éclairées par les con...
L'histoire des justices militaires a jusqu’il y a peu été largement négligée. Institution hybride, elle a longtemps fait l’objet de jugements à l’emporte-pièce, tant chez les militaires que chez les juristes. On a ainsi vu se multiplier critiques acerbes et plaidoyers pro domo autour de cette institution si particulière. Une série de séminaires menés dans le cadre du projet de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme, de 2004 à 2008, avait pour objectif de parcourir, en perspective comparée, les évolutions de la justice militaire depuis le XVI e siècle. Le présent volume reprend reprend une vingtaine de ces contributions, orientées sur le premier XXe siècle, pour comprendre...
This book offers an unprecedented history of the beginnings of street lighting in 18th-century France.
L'historiographie belge n’avait pas établi jusqu’à présent de bilan chiffré concernant les homicides attribués à la résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Théâtre d’un embrasement de violence à l’été 1944, l’arrondissement judiciaire de Mons constitue un observatoire privilégié du phénomène. Au-delà du binôme résistance-collaboration, longtemps présenté de manière antinomique, cette recherche met au jour la complexité des faits et des comportements. Les affaires étudiées transmettent à bien des égards le cliché en négatif d’une société montoise déstructurée dans l’immédiat après-guerre. La richesse documentaire des archives du parquet m...