The Napoleonic Empire and the new European political culture (in Spanish)

 
The proceedings of the international conference “Imperio napoleónico y la nueva cultura política europea”, held in Madrid in April 2008, have been published in Spanish. This collection of articles, edited by Michael Broers, Agustín Guimerá and Peter Hicks, takes a look at the Napoleonic Empire and the birth of a new European political culture, and takes into consideration three themes or, more appropriately, three areas of enquiry, set in various regional contexts:
 
1) the Napoleonic empire as a collective enterprise
2) the interaction, both collaborative and antagonistic, between the Grande Nation and the European territories it conquered
3) the imperialistic nature and reception of French rule in Europe
 
Michael Broers, fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford), offers a discussion of collaboration and resistance in the imperial departments of Napoleonic Italy, as well as a general introduction to the wider issues examined and contextual introductions for each of the regionally-organised sections. There are also contributions from Howard Brown, Thierry Lentz, Rafe Blaufarb, Annie Jourdan, Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, Alex Grab, Anna Maria Rao, Jean-Rene Aymes, Jose Maria Portillo Valdés, and Marta Lorente.
 
Table of contents  
Introduction
– Michael Broers, “Napoleon, His Empire, Our Europe and the 'New Napoleonic History'”
– Peter Hicks, “Napoleon as a Politician”
 
Constitutions and Codification
Jacques-Olivier Boudon, “Constitutions and the codification in the Empire”
Michael Rapport, “The Napoleonic Civil Code: the Belgian Case”
Anna-Maria Rao, “The feudal question in the Kingdom of Naples”
Emilio La Parra, “The Monarchy at Bayonne and the Constitution of Cadiz”
Fernando Dores Costa, “Napoleonic Paradoxes in Europe: The Portuguese Case”

State and Administration
Michael Rowe, “A Tale of Two Cities: Aachen and Cologne in Napoleonic Europe” 
Matthijs Lok and Martijn van der Burg, “The Dutch Case: the Kingdom of Holland and the Imperial Departments”
Alex Grab, “The Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy: State Administration”
Gabriele Clemens, “The Swiss Case in the Napoleonic Empire”
Marta Lorente, “The New Spanish Councils”
Rafe Blaufarb, “The Re-politicisation of Civil Law in Napoleonic France: the example of Aubagne vs. Du Muy”

Political system and popular resistance
José Alvarez Junco, “Military might and popular resistance”
Howard Brown, “The Origins of the Napoleonic System of Repression”
Alan Forrest, “Policing, Rural Revolt and Conscription in Napoleonic France”
Katherine Aaslestad, “Napoleonic Rule in German Central Europe: Compliance and Resistance”
Michael Broers, “The Imperial Departments of Napoleonic Italy: Resistance and Collaboration”
Jean-Rene Aymes, “Popular resistance Spain”

Empire
Steven Englund, “Reflections on the First Empire: a change of pardigms?”
Annie Jourdan, “The First empire in the epoch of revolutions (1804-1815): the debate between two national representations”
Thierry Lentz, “Imperial France in 1808 and beyond”
Jose Maria Portillo Valdés, “Imperial Spain”