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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452526003321

Autore

Iglesias Rogers Graciela <1963->

Titolo

British liberators in the age of Napoleon [[electronic resource] ] : volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War / / Graciela Iglesias Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

ISBN

1-283-87438-5

1-4411-0374-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

940.278

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain History 1789-1820

Great Britain History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1: The World of the Future Volunteers; The target for liberation; Chapter 2: Why Volunteer with the Spanish Forces?; Chapter 3: Grounds for Action: The 'Spanish Cause'; Chapter 4: An Ideology of Single-Mindedness; The so-called Marquess de La Romana's coup; British interventionism; The 'Tilly Affair'; British caudillos or liberators?; Chapter 5: Interpreters and Disseminators of Culture; Chapter 6: Accidental Agents of Social Change; Educating for liberation

In the land of Amazons and orphansChapter 7: 'Half Spanish, Half English, and Wholly Patriot'; Tensions among friends; Relations with Moore and Wellington; A question of identity; Chapter 8: The Aftermath; An international network of liberation; Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Biographical Notes; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Unpublished thesis; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the



Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at times an equally overbearing ideology: Napoleon's imperialism. Although small in number, British volunteers played a surprisingly influential role in the conduct of war operations, in politics, gender and social equality, in cultural life both in Britain and Spain and even in relation to emancipation movements in Latin America. Some became priso