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Examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, and also considers the populations subjected to French rule; the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project.
Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernisin…
