MICHAEL ROWE is Lecturer of Modern European History, Queen's University, Belfast. He is a specialist in the field of Napoleonic history, and his publications include numerous articles and chapters devoted to various aspects of state-formation. His forthcoming monograph is entitled From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830.

'A geographically wide-ranging, thematically thought-provoking and historiographically-timely essay collection by a team of distinguished scholars which should appeal to both specialists and students.' - Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

• List of Maps Preface List of Contributors Introduction; M.Rowe Confidence from below? Collaboration and resistance in the Napoleonic Plebiscites; M.Crook State-Formation and Resistance. The Army and Local Elites in Napoleonic France; A.Forrest Centre & Periphery in Napoleonic Italy. The Nature of French Rule in the Départements Réunis , 1800-1814; M.Broers The Many Faces of Modernity. French Rule in Southern Italy, 1806-1815; J.Davis Popular Mobilization in Spain, 1808-10: a Re-Assessment; C.Esdaile Centralisation versus Particularism in the 'Third Germany'; A.Fahrmeir Napoleonic Germany and State Formation; J.Breuilly Opportunity or Threat? Napoleon and the Hungarian Estates; O.Szakály The Attitudes of the Polish Political Elite towards the State in the Period of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815; J.Czubaty Russia and Napoleon: State, Society and the Nation; J.Hartley State-formation, Public Resistance and Nation-building in Scandinavia in the Era of Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815; K.Zetterberg The British State and the Napoleonic Wars, c.1800-1815; P.Jupp Index

MICHAEL ROWE is Lecturer of Modern European History, Queen's University, Belfast. He is a specialist in the field of Napoleonic history, and his publications include numerous articles and chapters devoted to various aspects of state-formation. His forthcoming monograph is entitled From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830.

'A geographically wide-ranging, thematically thought-provoking and historiographically-timely essay collection by a team of distinguished scholars which should appeal to both specialists and students.' - Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

• List of Maps Preface List of Contributors Introduction; M.Rowe Confidence from below? Collaboration and resistance in the Napoleonic Plebiscites; M.Crook State-Formation and Resistance. The Army and Local Elites in Napoleonic France; A.Forrest Centre & Periphery in Napoleonic Italy. The Nature of French Rule in the Départements Réunis , 1800-1814; M.Broers The Many Faces of Modernity. French Rule in Southern Italy, 1806-1815; J.Davis Popular Mobilization in Spain, 1808-10: a Re-Assessment; C.Esdaile Centralisation versus Particularism in the 'Third Germany'; A.Fahrmeir Napoleonic Germany and State Formation; J.Breuilly Opportunity or Threat? Napoleon and the Hungarian Estates; O.Szakály The Attitudes of the Polish Political Elite towards the State in the Period of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815; J.Czubaty Russia and Napoleon: State, Society and the Nation; J.Hartley State-formation, Public Resistance and Nation-building in Scandinavia in the Era of Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815; K.Zetterberg The British State and the Napoleonic Wars, c.1800-1815; P.Jupp Index

MICHAEL ROWE is Lecturer of Modern European History, Queen's University, Belfast. He is a specialist in the field of Napoleonic history, and his publications include numerous articles and chapters devoted to various aspects of state-formation. His forthcoming monograph is entitled From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830.

'A geographically wide-ranging, thematically thought-provoking and historiographically-timely essay collection by a team of distinguished scholars which should appeal to both specialists and students.' - Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

• List of Maps Preface List of Contributors Introduction; M.Rowe Confidence from below? Collaboration and resistance in the Napoleonic Plebiscites; M.Crook State-Formation and Resistance. The Army and Local Elites in Napoleonic France; A.Forrest Centre & Periphery in Napoleonic Italy. The Nature of French Rule in the Départements Réunis , 1800-1814; M.Broers The Many Faces of Modernity. French Rule in Southern Italy, 1806-1815; J.Davis Popular Mobilization in Spain, 1808-10: a Re-Assessment; C.Esdaile Centralisation versus Particularism in the 'Third Germany'; A.Fahrmeir Napoleonic Germany and State Formation; J.Breuilly Opportunity or Threat? Napoleon and the Hungarian Estates; O.Szakály The Attitudes of the Polish Political Elite towards the State in the Period of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815; J.Czubaty Russia and Napoleon: State, Society and the Nation; J.Hartley State-formation, Public Resistance and Nation-building in Scandinavia in the Era of Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815; K.Zetterberg The British State and the Napoleonic Wars, c.1800-1815; P.Jupp Index