Popular Resistance in the French Wars : Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates

by Esdaile, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781403938268
• ISBN10: 1403938261
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230522992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against Napoleon's 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.

Author Biography

Charles Esdaile lectures on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, modern Europe and the Spanish Civil War at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Preface	x
Acknowledgement	xi
Notes on Contributors	xii
1 Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates in Retrospect	1	(24)
Charles J. Esdaile
2 The Ubiquitous Brigand: The Politics and Language of Repression	25	(20)
Alan Forrest
3 Guerrilla Warfare avant la lettre: Northern Italy, 1792-97	45	(22)
Martin Boycott-Brown
4 Resistance, Collaboration or Third Way? Responses to Napoleonic Rule in Germany	67	(24)
Michael Rowe
5 Popular Resistance in Catalonia: Soma tens and Miquelets, 1808-14	91	(24)
Antonio Moliner Prada
6 The Anatomy of a Research Project: The Sociology of the Guerrilla War in Spain, 1808-14	115	(22)
Charles J. Esdaile and Leonor Hernández Enviz
7 Regulating the Irregulars: Spanish Legislation on la guerrilla during the Peninsular War	137	(24)
Vittorio Scotti-Douglas
8 The Pen and the Sword: Political Catechisms and Resistance to Napoleon	161	(20)
Emilie Delivré
9 The Patriotism of the Russian Army in the Patriotic' or 'Fatherland' War of 1812	181	(20)
Janet Hartley
10 Popular Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: Issues and Perspectives	201	(24)
Charles J. Esdaile
Index	225