Overview
- Moves the focus from the Parisian center of power to the day-to-day work of police in European cities
- Explores the way the Napoleonic police system was implemented and articulated within urban police
- Shows the richness of the local archives to explore Napoleonic imperialism
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Antoine Renglet is Researcher at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and lecturer at Saint-Louis University of Brussels, Belgium. He holds his PhD from the universities of Lille and Namur. He was visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley in 2014, and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University of Frankfurt in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe
Authors: Antoine Renglet
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11054-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11053-5Published: 22 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11056-6Published: 22 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11054-2Published: 21 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of France, History of Modern Europe, Imperialism and Colonialism, Urban History, Crime and Society