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Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates
Charles Esdaile
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Esdaile, Charles J. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 465.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403938268
SKU
V9781403938268
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99-15
About Charles Esdaile
MARTIN BOYCOTT-BROWN Researcher EMILIE DELIVRÉ Researcher ALAN FORREST Department of History, University of York, UK JANET HARTLEY Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK LEONOR HERNADEZ-ENVIZ Researcher ANTONIO MOLINER PRADA Professor of History, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain MICHAEL ROWE Lecturer, King's College London, UK VITTORIO SCOTTI-DOUGLAS Senior Fellow, University of Trieste, Spain
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