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Popular Resistance in the French Wars
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Popular Resistance in the French Wars
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates in Retrospect
- 2 The Ubiquitous Brigand: The Politics and Language of Repression
- 3 Guerrilla Warfare avant la lettre: Northern Italy, 1792–97
- 4 Resistance, Collaboration or Third Way? Responses to Napoleonic Rule in Germany
- 5 Popular Resistance in Catalonia: Somatens and Miquelets, 1808–14
- 6 The Anatomy of a Research Project: The Sociology of the Guerrilla War in Spain, 1808–14
- 7 Regulating the Irregulars: Spanish Legislation on la guerrilla during the Peninsular War
- 8 The Pen and the Sword: Political Catechisms and Resistance to Napoleon
- 9 The Patriotism of the Russian Army in the ‘Patriotic’ or ‘Fatherland’ War of 1812
- 10 Popular Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: Issues and Perspectives
- Index