03565nam 22006855 450 991063108730332120251008151954.09783031110542(electronic bk.)978303111053510.1007/978-3-031-11054-2(MiAaPQ)EBC7144114(Au-PeEL)EBL7144114(CKB)25430597600041(DE-He213)978-3-031-11054-2(EXLCZ)992543059760004120221121d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolicing Cities in Napoleonic Europe /by Antoine Renglet1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (289 pages)War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850,2634-6702Print version: Renglet, Antoine Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031110535 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850,2634-6702FranceHistoryEuropeHistory1492-ImperialismCities and townsHistoryCrimeSociological aspectsHistory of FranceHistory of Modern EuropeImperialism and ColonialismUrban HistoryCrime and SocietyFranceHistory.EuropeHistory1492-.Imperialism.Cities and townsHistory.CrimeSociological aspects.History of France.History of Modern Europe.Imperialism and Colonialism.Urban History.Crime and Society.307.76363.2091732094Renglet Antoine1264739MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910631087303321Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe2965658UNINA