Pathbreaking Institutions : The Legacy of French Domination in Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postigliola, Michele.

Contributor:

Rota, Mauro.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Law reform--Italy.

Law reform.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Torino : Giappichelli, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the institutional legacy of French domination in Italy during the Napoleonic era, focusing on the transformative impact of reforms introduced between 1796 and 1815. It examines the role of institutions in shaping long-term economic growth, human capital development, and social trust, emphasizing the exogenous shocks brought by Napoleonic governance. The authors analyze the dual phases of French control in Italy—the republican phase and the imperial phase—and their implications for legal, educational, and fiscal systems. Using a newly constructed dataset, the book provides empirical insights into the duration and intensity of French rule across Italian provinces, highlighting regional variations in institutional adaptation. Intended for scholars and researchers in economic history, political science, and institutional studies, the work contributes to understanding the relationship between institutional change and development trajectories. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Eyelet

Contents

Introduction

Chapter I The Historiography of Napoleonic Institutional Legacies

1. Introduction

2. The Interpretation of Napoleon and his era in non-Woolfian historiography

3. The new Napoleonic history

4. The second wave of the new Napoleonic history and its criticisms

5. Historiography of the French period in Italy

6. Napoleon, French domination, and the economic history literature

Chapter II Cliometrics of the French domination

2. The French domination and primary schooling

3. The French domination and the demand of schooling

4. Radical reforms and innovation

5. Radical reforms and social capital

Chapter III The geography of Napoleonic institutional legacy after the Vienna Congress

2. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany

3. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

4. The Papal States

5. Kingdom of Sardinia

6. An Overview of Napoleonic Judicial Reforms

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ISBN:

979-1-221-18146-3

OCLC:

1527724688