Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society [electronic resource] : Office Politics and Individual Credit in France 1789-1848 /
Kingston, R.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : 20,000 fools -- Office politics -- A revolution in administration : the theory and practice of government during the French revolution -- Revolutionary time and space : the anxieties of administrative "transparency ' -- Telling tales : collaboration, career-making, and the contest for credit -- Bureaucrats in bourgeois society -- Civil servant, civil society : the accumulation of "honor" in bourgeois society -- Surrogate fathers, suitable sons : manufacturing "paternity" and honorable inheritance -- The social politics of bureaucracy : the "bureaucrat" as "bourgeois type" -- Coda & conclusion : the failure of 1848 : bourgeois social capital at the crossroads -- Note on method and sources and select bibliography -- Endnotes.
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.
France—History.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
History of France.
European History.
Modern History.
Social History.