Bureaucrats and bourgeois society : office politics and individual credit in France 1789 - 1848

Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : 20,000 fools -- Office politics -- A revolution in administration : the theory and practice of government during the French revolution -- Revolutionary time and space : the anxieties of administrative "transparency ' -- Telling tales : co...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Kingston, Ralph 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:War, culture and society, 1750 - 1850
Schlagworte:Bureaucracy France Bürokratie Angestellter Soziale Situation Bürgerliche Gesellschaft Frankreich Geschichte 1789-1848
Umfang:X, 237 S.
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Zusammenfassung:Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : 20,000 fools -- Office politics -- A revolution in administration : the theory and practice of government during the French revolution -- Revolutionary time and space : the anxieties of administrative "transparency ' -- Telling tales : collaboration, career-making, and the contest for credit -- Bureaucrats in bourgeois society -- Civil servant, civil society : the accumulation of "honor" in bourgeois society -- Surrogate fathers, suitable sons : manufacturing "paternity" and honorable inheritance -- The social politics of bureaucracy : the "bureaucrat" as "bourgeois type" -- Coda & conclusion : the failure of 1848 : bourgeois social capital at the crossroads -- Note on method and sources and select bibliography -- Endnotes
Beschreibung:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:X, 237 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 22 cm
ISBN:9780230304314
0230304311