The Napoleonic empire in Italy, 1796-1814 : cultural imperialism in a European context? / Michael Broers.

In The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814, Michael Broers brings to bear on the Napoleonic Empire many of the conceptual tools deployed in the study of the great extra-European colonial empires. Cultural imperialism and acculturation find close counterparts in many of the policies and attitudes o...

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Main Author: Broers, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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: Mentaliť 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.