Women In The Peninsular War
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Women In The Peninsular War
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Author : Charles J. Esdaile
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Women In The Peninsular War written by Charles J. Esdaile and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with History categories.
In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines, a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due. But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict in various ways.
Women In The Peninsular War
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Author : Charles J. Esdaile
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Women In The Peninsular War written by Charles J. Esdaile and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Social Science categories.
In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a situation that Charles J. Esdaile seeks to address. In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines, a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due. But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict in various ways. While some women fought or otherwise became involved in the struggle against the invaders, others turned collaborator, used the war as a means of effecting dramatic changes in their situation, or simply concentrated on staying alive. Along with Agustina Zaragoza Domenech, then, we meet French sympathizers, campfollowers, pamphleteers, cross-dressers, prostitutes, amorous party girls, and even a few protofeminists. Esdaile examines many social spheres, ranging from the pampered daughters of the nobility, through the cloistered members of Spain’s many convents, to the tough and defiant denizens of the Madrid slums. And we meet not just the women to whom the war came but also the women who came to the war—the many thousands who accompanied the British and French armies to the Iberian peninsula. Thanks to his use of copious original source material, Esdaile rescues one and all from, as E. P. Thompson put it, “the enormous condescension of posterity.” And yet all these women remain firmly in their historical and cultural context, a context that Esdaile shows to have emerged from the Peninsular War hardly changed. Hence the subsequent loss of these women’s story, and the obscurity from which this book has at long last rescued them.
Following The Drum
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Author : F. C. G. Page
language : en
Publisher: A. Deutsch
Release Date : 1986
Following The Drum written by F. C. G. Page and has been published by A. Deutsch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Army spouses categories.
O.a. biografieën van Mary J.M. de los Dolores de Leon Anton, Lady de Lancy.
Women Families And The British Army 1700 1880 Vol 3
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Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Women Families And The British Army 1700 1880 Vol 3 written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with History categories.
This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared, assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation, and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled "on the strength" of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing, but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents, wives, and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts, despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering, both on the march and back in Britain, attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides, for the first time in one place, a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved, their children, and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time, and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers, government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks, and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts, especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters, diaries, memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This third volume includes personal accounts of service in the Napoleonic Wars Era.
Women Families And The British Army 1700 1880 Vol 2
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Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Women Families And The British Army 1700 1880 Vol 2 written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with History categories.
This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared, assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation, and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled "on the strength" of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing, but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents, wives, and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts, despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering, both on the march and back in Britain, attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides, for the first time in one place, a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved, their children, and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time, and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers, government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks, and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts, especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters, diaries, memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This second volume covers the period during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic War era
Marriage And The British Army In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-02
Marriage And The British Army In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with History categories.
Examines the relationships between soldiers and their wives during the long eighteenth century in Britain, particularly focusing on the wives who stayed at home while their husbands went to war.
Cassie
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Author : Ernest Victor Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Cassie written by Ernest Victor Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
Follows the lives of women camp followers - in particular Cassie, a passionate woman with a mind of her own - in Spain during Wellington's Peninsular offensive in the Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon S Cursed War
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Author : Ronald Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Napoleon S Cursed War written by Ronald Fraser and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with History categories.
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition—the guerrillas—and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses—the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died—and restores their role in this barbaric war to its rightful place while overturning the view that this was a straightforward military campaign. This vivid, meticulously researched book offers a distinct and profound vision of “Napoleon’s Vietnam” and shows the reality of the disasters of war: the suffering, discontents and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. With a new Introduction by Tariq Ali.
Sons Of The Sword
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Author : Margaret Louisa Woods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Sons Of The Sword written by Margaret Louisa Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
30 Second Napoleon
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Author : Charles Esdaile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-14
30 Second Napoleon written by Charles Esdaile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-14 with Europe categories.
Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment to ideals of liberty and democracy, on the other are those who would rather see him as an ambitious warlord, bent on establishing a colonial empire in the heart of Europe. 30-Second Napoleon takes in both viewpoints, presenting an engrossing introduction to one of the most recognizable figures in history and one of extraordinary interest whichever point of view you take, romantic or pragmatic: one who did much to modernize Europe, and who stood for both a powerful state and for rational and efficient government, plus such principles as equality before the law and the career open to talent--achievements that explain his continued fascination for so many people.