03192nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-68225-4 DE-He213 20251030113129.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241005s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031682254 978-3-031-68225-4 10.1007/978-3-031-68225-4 doi DC HBJD bicssc 1DDF bicssc HIS013000 bisacsh NHD 1DDF thema Cuccoli, Lorenzo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85663 The Technical Corps Between France and Italy, 1750-1814 [electronic resource] / by Lorenzo Cuccoli. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 271 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850, 2634-6702 1: Introduction -- 2: The Professionalization of the Technical Corps -- 3: The Institutional History of the Technical Corps -- 4: Careers in the Technical Corps -- 5: The Institutional History of the Technical Corps -- 6: Careers in the Technical Corps -- 7: The Realisations of the Technical Corps -- 8: Conclusion. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the technical corps during the Napoleonic Era, both in France and in Italy. These corps, which possessed advanced schooling and nurtured meritocratic practices even in the Ancien Regime, came to the forefront with the French Revolution, due to the increase in prestige of both scientists and the military. Notwithstanding the key roles played by well-known figures such as Lazare Carnot and Napoleon Bonaparte, the historiography has not fully explored either the culture that produced them, or the impact this had in France and in Napoleonic Europe, or their far-reaching legacy. The modern paradigms of technocracy and meritocracy in fact have their origin in these corps. Lorenzo Cuccoli is an independent scholar who received his PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. France History. Italy History. 71178 Europe History. 70908 Military history. History of France. History of Italy. 71179 European History. 57767 Military History. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031682247 Printed edition: 9783031682261 Printed edition: 9783031682278 War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850, 2634-6702 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68225-4 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 64018 64018