Gavin Daly

The British Soldier in the Peninsular War

Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-32382-8
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781137323828
• ISBN-10: 1137323825
• Artikelnr.: 38081699

Autorenporträt

Gavin Daly is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. To the Peninsula 2. First Contact: Lisbon 3. Landscape and Climate 4. Billets and Hospitality 5. Searching for Civilization 6. The Religious World 7. 'Dark-Eyed Beauties' Conclusion: Crossing to Civilization

Rezensionen

"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 J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool, UK