Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society Office Politics and Individual Credit in France 1789–1848
Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, idea...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2012, 2012
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Series: | War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity |
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Physical Description: | X, 237 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9781137264923 |