Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society

RALPH KINGSTON is an assistant professor of History at Auburn University, USA. He previously held positions at Trinity College Dublin, and as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. His article, The Bricks and Mortar of Revolutionary Administration, published in French History, was awarded the SEASECS Percy V. Adams prize.

Acknowledgements Introduction: 20,000 Fools: Inventing the 'Bureaucrat' PART I: 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 PART II: BUREAUCRATS IN BOURGEOIS SOCIETY Civil Servant, Civil Society: The Accumulation of 'Honour' in Bourgeois Society Surrogate Fathers, Suitable Sons: Manufacturing 'Paternity' and Honourable 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 Index