Martijn van der Burg, Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany: Conquest,Incorporation, and Integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

International audience ; More than thirty years ago, Stuart Woolf published his book Napoleon's Integration of Europe, commonly considered to have been groundbreaking for what has been coined the "New Napoleonic history."[1] In contrast to the abundant historical literature devoted to the life of Napoleon and that of his family and to the numerous narratives of battles and military campaigns, Woolf focused on the actors of Napoleonic empire-building. According to Woolf, many French officials sent out to administer incorporated territories were convinced that they were the driving force behind... Mehr ...