Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.

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KATHARINE AASLESTAD Professor at the University of West Virginia, USA JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ JUNCO Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain JEAN-RENE AYMES Professor at the Université Paris III, France MARTIJN VAN DER BERG Lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands HOWARD BROWN Professor at Binghamton University, USA GABRIELE CLEMENS Professor at the Universität des Sarrelandes, Germany FERNANDO DORES COSTA Professor at the Instituto superior de Ciencias del Trabajo y Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal ALAN FORREST Professor at the University of York, UK ALEX GRAB Professor at the University of Maine, USA KAREN HAGEMANN James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA JOHAN JOOR Historian and Honorary research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam ANNIE JOURDAN Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands EMILIO LA PARRA LOPEZ Professor at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain THIERRY LENTZ Director of the Fondation Napoléon, France MATTHIJS LOK Assistant Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands MARTA LORENTE Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain UTE PLANERT Professor at the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany JOSÉ MARÍA PORTILLO Professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain ANNA-MARIA RAO Professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, Italy MICHAEL RAPPORT Professor at the University ofStirling, UK MICHAEL ROWE Senior Lecturer at King's College, London, UK REINHARD A. STAUBER Professor at the Universität von Klagenfurt, Austria MARIE-CÉCILE THORAL Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK NICOLA TODOROV Teacher at the Lycée Gustave Flaubert and Lecturer at the University of Rouen, France

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Preface Foreword to the Series Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Map Introduction: The Napoleonic Empire & the New European Political Culture: Towards Our Europe; M.Broers PART I: FRANCE 1799-1814 Introduction; M.Broers Imperial France in 1808 and beyond; T.Lentz The Origins of the Napoleonic System of Repression; H.Brown Policing, Rural Revolt and Conscription in Napoleonic France; A.Forrest Small state, Big Society: The Involvement of Citizens in 19th Century France; M.C.Thoral Napoleon as a Politician; P.Hicks PART II: THE LOW COUNTRIES, THE RHINELAND AND SWITZERLAND, 1792-1814 Introduction; M.Broers The Napoleonic Civil Code: The Belgian Case; M.Rapport The Dutch Case: the Kingdom of Holland and the Imperial Departments; M.Lok  & M.van der Berg Resistance against Napoleon in the Kingdom of Holland; J.Joor A Tale of Two Cities: Aachen & Cologne in Napoleonic Europe; M.Rowe The Swiss Case in the Napoleonic Empire; G.Clemens PART III: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Introduction; M.Broers Resistance to Napoleonic Reform in the Grand Duchy of Berg, the Kingdom of the Westphalia and the South German states; U.Planert Napoleonic Rule in German Central Europe: Compliance and Resistance; K.Aaslestad The Napoleonic Administrative System in the Kingdom of Westphalia; N.P.Todorov The Prussian Era of Reforms; K.Hagemann PART IV: THE ITALIAN PENINSULAR & THE ILLYRIAN PROVINCES Introduction: M.Broers The Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy: State Administration; A.Grab The Imperial Departments of Napoleonic Italy: Resistance and Collaboration; M.Broers The Feudal Question in the Kingdom of Naples; A.M.Rao The Illyrian Provinces; R.Stauber PART V: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 1800-1814 Introduction; M.Broers The Monarchy at Bayonne and the Constitution of Cadiz; E.La Parra Popular Resistance in Spain; J.R.Aymes Imperial Spain; J.M.Portillo The New Spanish Councils; M.Lorente Napoleonic Paradoxes in Europe: The Portuguese Case; F.D.Costa Conclusion: The Napoleonic Empire in the Age of Revolutions: The Contrast of Two National Representations; A.Jourdan Index