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The Peninsular War:

A New History
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Palgrave Macmillan, Jun 14, 2003 - History - 587 pages
At the end of the 18th century Spain remained one of the world's most powerful empires. Portugal, too, was prosperous at the time. By 1808, everything had changed. Portugal was under occupation and ravaged by famine, disease, economic problems and political instability. Spain had imploded and worse was to come. For the next six years, the peninsula was the helpless victim of others, suffering perhaps over a million deaths while troops from all over Europe tore it to pieces. Charles Esdaile's brilliant new history of the conflict makes plain the scope of the tragedy and its far-reaching effects, especially the poisonous legacy that produced the Spanish civil war of 1936-9. At the end of the 18th century Spain remained one of the world's most powerful empires. Portugal, too, was prosperous at the time. By 1808, everything had changed. Portugal was under occupation and ravaged by famine, disease, economic problems and political instability. Spain had imploded and worse was to come. For the next six years, the peninsula was the helpless victim of others, suffering perhaps over a million deaths while troops from all over Europe tore it to pieces. Charles Esdaile's brilliant new history of the conflict makes plain the scope of the tragedy and its far-reaching effects, especially the poisonous legacy that produced the Spanish civil war of 1936-9.
  

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Charles Esdaile's book on the Peninsular War offers readers a comprehensive and in-depth study of this savage conflict that raged across Spain and Portugal between 1808 and 1814. In over 510 pages of ... Read full review

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This seemed to want to be a book either about how the Josephinian Interregnum reshaped Spanish politics or about How Brutish the British, but it never really managed to be either thing, getting bogged ... Read full review

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Contents

the Origins of the Peninsular War
1
the Iberian Insurrections MayJune 1808
37
the Summer Campaign of 1808
62
the Liberation of Portugal August 1808
87
Napoleons Revenge
109
the Campaign of Sir John Moore
140
Conquest Frustrated JanuaryJune 1809
164
the Fall of the Junta Central
192
the Defence of Portugal
311
Stalemate on the Portuguese Frontier
340
the AngloPortuguese Offensive of 1812
369
the Autumn Campaign of 1812 3 99
399
the Defeat of King Joseph
428
the Invasion of France
455
Peace and Thereafter
483
Glossary
510

the Bonaparte Kingdom of Spain 18081813
222
the Emergence of Guerrilla War 18081810
250
the Making of the Spanish Revolution 18101812
281
Further Reading
540
Index
565
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About the author (2003)

Charles Esdaile is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Wars of Napoleon, The French Wars, and others. He lives in England.

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TitleThe Peninsular War: A New History
AuthorCharles Esdaile
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2003
ISBN1403962316, 9781403962317
Length587 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Europe / Spain & Portugal
History / Military / General
History / Modern / 19th Century
  
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