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Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society: Office Politics and Individual Credit in France 1789-1848 2012th Edition
Author(s): Ralph Kingston (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 247 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230304311
- ISBN-13: 9780230304314
Book Description
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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About the Author
RALPH KINGSTON is an assistant professor of History at Auburn University, USA. He previously held positions at Trinity College Dublin, and as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. His article, The Bricks and Mortar of Revolutionary Administration, published in French History, was awarded the SEASECS Percy V. Adams prize.
