Napoleon's legacy : problems of government in restoration Europe / edited by David Laven and Lucy Riall.

"The original versions of the chapters collected in this volume were first given as papers at a conference entitled Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe, held in the Institute of Historical Research in London on 18/19 April 1997"--Pref.

Restoration government and the legacy of Napoleon / David Laven and LucyRiall -- 'No, Minister': French restoration rejection of authoritarianism / Robert Alexander -- State and society in post-Napoleonic Italy / Marco Meriggi -- Enlightened absolutism versus theocracy in the Spanish restoration, 1814-50 / Charles Esdaile -- The Napoleonic legacy and problems of restoration in central Europe: the German confederation / Michael John -- Napoleon and Germany: a legacy in foreign policy / Brendan Simms -- The Polish kingdom (1815-1830): continuity or change / Andrezj Nieuwazny -- The Napoleonic legacy in the Rhineland and the politics of reform in restoration Prussia / Michael Rowe -- The restoration in Piedmont-Sardinia, 1814-1848: variations on reaction / Michael Broers -- The Royaume du midi of 1815 / Brian Fitzpatrick -- The 'impossible restoration': the leftand the revolutionary and Napoleonic legacies / Pamela Pilbeam -- National colours and national identity in early nineteenth-century Germany / AndreasF