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Record Nr.

UNINA9910631087303321

Autore

Renglet Antoine

Titolo

Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe / / by Antoine Renglet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031110542

9783031110535

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850, , 2634-6702

Disciplina

307.76

363.2091732094

Soggetti

France - History

Europe - History - 1492-

Imperialism

Cities and towns - History

Crime - Sociological aspects

History of France

History of Modern Europe

Imperialism and Colonialism

Urban History

Crime and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The police system in the cities -- 2. The development of a professional culture -- 3. From cities to Empire: ‘imperialization’ of police structures -- 4. Police work and the people -- 5. Policing as a tool for governing and improving the city -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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.