Bureaucrats and bourgeois society
Subtitle: office politics and individual credit :  France, 1789-1848
By: by Ralph Kingston
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780230304314
Subjects: Politics and government; Bureaucracy; History; Social conditions; France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction : 20,000 fools; title: Office politics; title: A revolution in administration : the theory and practice of government during the French revolution; title: Revolutionary time and space : the anxieties of administrative "transparency '; title: Telling tales : collaboration, career-making, and the contest for credit; title: Bureaucrats in bourgeois society; title: Civil servant, civil society : the accumulation of "honor" in bourgeois society; title: Surrogate fathers, suitable sons : manufacturing "paternity" and honorable inheritance; title: The social politics of bureaucracy : the "bureaucrat" as "bourgeois type"; title: Coda & conclusion : the failure of 1848 : bourgeois social capital at the crossroads; title: Note on method and sources and select bibliography; title: Endnotes.