Author: Robert Semple
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Robert Semple
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: John Pinkerton
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Author: Charles Esdaile
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books has concentrated on how these momentous events were perceived and understood by the people who experienced them. Charles Esdaile has brought together a vivid selection of contemporary accounts of every aspect of the war to create a panoramic yet minutely detailed picture of those years of turmoil. The story is told through memoirs, letters and eyewitness testimony from all sides. Instead of generals and statesmen, we mostly hear from less-well-known figures - junior officers and ordinary soldiers and civilians who recorded their immediate experience of the conflict.

Author: Susan Valladares
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050711
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.

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Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Graciela Iglesias Rogers
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441135650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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