Napoleon and the First Empire's Ministries of War and Military Administration [electronic resource] : The Construction of a Military Bureaucracy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dague, Everett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.

France. Ministère de la guerre--History.

Military law--France.

Military law.

France.

France. Ministère de la guerre--History.

Local Subjects:

France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.

France. Ministère de la guerre--History.

Military law--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Napoleon and the First Empire''s Ministries of War and Military Administration

Napoleon and the First Empire's Ministries of War and Military Administration

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The original archival research contained in this work redefines the nature and position of Napoleon's Ministry of War. Under the First Empire the Ministry developed as a combined action of competing administrative authorities. Stable and self-referencing, the Ministry was flexible, which reflected its growing professionalization. Under the Ancien Regime, the Revolution, and the early Empire administrative officers were often chosen for other reasons than administrative ability, and always subject to the influence of military and civilian outsiders. This work examines the development of the arm

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Preface and Terminology; Chapter 2: The Historiographical Traditions of Napoleonic Administration; Chapter 3: A Revolutionary Ministry of War?- Antecedents and Precedents, 1715

1799; Chapter 4: Bereaucratic Evolution, November 1799 to August 1807; Chapter 5: The Rise of Henri Clarke; Chapter 6: Development and Operations of the War Ministry under Henri Clark, 1808-1810; Chapter 7: Army Building, Administrative Operations and the Walcheren Island Colonne Mobile, 1811; Chapter 8: The Opportunity of Market

Chapter 9: The Coming Storm: 1813Chapter 10: 1814- Annus Terriblis; Chapter 11: After the Empire, Beyond the Emperor; Appendix: Structure and Organization of the Ministries of War, War Administration, and Related Offices, 1799-1815; Bibliography; Index

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ISBN:

0-7734-1183-6

OCLC:

798535624