Charles Esdaile
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2004
9781403938268
Popular Resistance in the French Wars
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Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2004
ISBN13: 9781403938268
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word 'guerrilla', but did armed civilians really play an important a role in the struggle? In this collection of essays a group of specialists on the Napoleonic epoch tease out the question, and arrive at some startling conclusions.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781403938268
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Popular Resistance in Napoleanic Europe: Issues and Perspectives; C.J.Esdaile The Ubiquitous Brigand: The Politics and Language of Repression; A.Forrest Guerrilla Warfare Avant la Lettre: Northern Italy, 1792-97; M.Boycott-Brown Resistance, Collaboration or Third Way? Responses to Napoleonic Rule in Germany; M.Rowe Popular Resistance in Catalonia: Somatens and Miquelets in Catalonia, 1808-14; A.M.Prada The Anatomy of a Research Project: The Sociology of the Guerrilla War in Spain, 1808-14; C.J.Esdaile & L.Hernadez-Enviz Regulating the Irregulars: Spanish Legislation on La Guerrilla During the Peninsular War; V.Scotti-Douglas The Pen and the Sword: Political Catechisms and Resistance to Napoleon; E.Delivré The Patriotism of the Russian Army in the 'Patriotic' or 'Fatherland' War of 1812; J.Hartley Afterword: Patriots, Pirates and Land Pirates in Retrospect; C.J.Esdaile Index