NAPOLEON, CHARLEMAGNE, AND LOTHARINGIA: ACCULTURATION AND THE BOUNDARIES OF NAPOLEONIC EUROPE
Michael Broers
This article attempts to redefine the parameters of Napoleonic hegemony by applying two models territories empire: one developed Nathan Wachtel, predicated on levels acculturation and assimilation imperial core ; second, derived from work Braudel Brunet, which detects a European core, based along Rhine–Rhone axis, macro-region with long, if submerged, history. study concludes that acceptance reforms was achieved only in region, already predisposed them.
The Historical Journal