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British liberators in the age of Napoleon : volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.