Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and Their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions

260 Pages·2017·7.593 MB·English

by  Michael Broers

M I C H A E L B R O E R S
Napoleon’s Other War
Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers
in the Age of Revolutions

Napoleons Other War
The Past in the Present
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London
EDITORIAL BOARD
Beth Bailey, Temple University
C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge
David Bindman, University College London
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
John Carey, University of Oxford
Justin Champion, Royal Holloway, University of London
Peregrine Horden, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway,
University of London
Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge
Jim Samson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge
Napoleons Other War
Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers
in the Age of Revolutions
M i c h a e l B r o e r s
Peter Lang Oxford
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Contents
List of Illustrations IX
Preface XI
Acknowledgements xvn
Maps XIX
Chapter i The Way Things Were:
Bandits before the French Revolution
Chapter 2 The Cradle of Disorder:
France from Revolution to Civil War 19
Chapter 3 The War behind the Lines: Taming Napoleonic Europe 53
Chapter 4 The Bandit-chasers of Napoleonic Europe 85
Chapter 5 Spain: The Birth of the Guerrilla. The Bandits’ War? 105
Chapter 6 Spanish America: A Hemisphere of Brigandage 129
Chapter 7 The Balkans: The Bandits’ Paradise 157
Chapter 8 The People’s Heroes: The Legacy of the Bandits 181
Conclusion: Bandits and the New Order 193
Notes 199
Bibliography 211
Index 217