The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
Authors: Daly, G.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Gavin Daly is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Reviews
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"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
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-15
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To the Peninsula
Pages 16-45
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First Contact: Lisbon
Pages 46-63
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Landscape and Climate
Pages 64-90
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Billets and Hospitality
Pages 91-121
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
- Book Subtitle
- Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
- Authors
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- G. Daly
- Series Title
- War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-32383-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137323835
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-32382-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-45882-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 302
- Topics
