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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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
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| Titres liés à la collection: | War, culture and society, 1750 - 1850
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| Sujets: | Bureaucracy France Frankreich Bürokratie Angestellter Soziale Situation Bürgerliche Gesellschaft Geschichte 1789-1848 |
| Description matérielle: | X, 237 S. |
Table des matières:
- 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.