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The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
G. Daly
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Description for The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
Hardback. Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
318
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137323828
SKU
V9781137323828
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99-15
About G. Daly
Gavin Daly is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
Reviews for The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
Between 1808 and 1814 many British soldiers found a substitute for the traditional 'grand tour' in the 'tour de force' represented by the Peninsular War. In this book, meanwhile, we have a 'tour de force' of another kind: as comprehensive as it is elegant, it should catapult its author to the very forefront of the historiography. - Professor Charles ... Read more