03415nam 2200577Ia 450 991045252600332120200520144314.01-283-87438-51-4411-0374-0(CKB)2550000000709866(EBL)1094070(OCoLC)823726265(SSID)ssj0000810546(PQKBManifestationID)12363652(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810546(PQKBWorkID)10833675(PQKB)11447987(OCoLC)847599448(MiAaPQ)EBC1094070(Au-PeEL)EBL1094070(CaPaEBR)ebr10638832(CaONFJC)MIL418688(EXLCZ)99255000000070986620160210d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritish liberators in the age of Napoleon[electronic resource] volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War /Graciela Iglesias RogersLondon ;New York Bloomsbury Publishing20131 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4725-7533-4 1-4411-3565-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 liberationIn 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3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Unpublished thesis; IndexThis book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the Spanish Civil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 prisoGreat BritainHistory1789-1820Great BritainHistoryElectronic books.940.278Iglesias Rogers Graciela1963-891195MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452526003321British liberators in the age of Napoleon1990518UNINA