Naslov
French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806-1814: Globalizing a Local Geopolitics

Autori
Trogrlić, Marko ; Vrandečić, Josip

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Napoleon's Empire. European Politics in Global Perspective

Urednik/ci
Planert, Ute

Izdavač
Palgrave Macmillan

Grad
London : Delhi

Godina
2015

Raspon stranica
264-276

ISBN
978-1-137-45546-8

Ključne riječi
French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806-1814, Napoleon's Empire

Sažetak
The purpose of this chapter is two-fold: first, to present the implementation of the new Adriatic geopolitical paradigm imposed by Napoleon’s takeover of Dalmatia in 1806 ; and second, to address the inner dynamics of French rule in the province—both its achievements and its flaws. Napoleon’s foreign policies and the military build-up changed the early-modern political environment in the Adriatic, traditionally dominated by the regional powers of Venice, the Habsburgs and the Turks. The French grand strategy, which included the Eastern Mediterranean, consequently brought the other great power contenders to the region, namely the British and Russians, who each had a traditionally weak presence in the southern European periphery, situated far from their capitals and the continental battlefields. The ensuing Anglo-French struggle for power and peace in the new arena was marked by the relentless use of force—but also by a French political ideology of liberal reformism and narrative. The Dalmatian local bourgeois revolution involved multiple population strata: nobles, the middle-class, even members of rural, conservative society. The democratic limits of the new regime were combined with war, recruitment and economic blockades, and a polarized society. The French administration modernized and improved the judicial system, administration, education, and roads, but the human and material cost it entailed exceeded anything seen since the Turkish wars.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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