Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps; Preface; The Revolutionary-Napoleonic ideals of conquest; The tools of conquest; The practices of conquest: administrative integration; The practices of conquest: exploitation; Responses to conquest; Epilogue: the heritage; Appendix: chronology 1789 1821; Notes; Bibliography; Name index
Summary
Examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, and also considers the populations subjected to French rule; the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project
