Napoleon's other war : bandits, rebels and their pursuers in the age of revolutions /

The wars of Napoleon are among the best-known and most exciting episodes in world history. Less well known is the uproar the armies stirred up in their path, and even more, the chaos they left in their wake. The "knock-on effect" of Napoleon's sweep across Europe went further than is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Broers, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Peter Lang, [2018]
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Subjects:	Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. Europe > History > 1789-1815. Peasant uprisings > History > 18th century. Peasant uprisings > History > 19th century. Military history, Modern > 18th century. Military history, Modern > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

The way things were : bandits before the French Revolution
The cradle of disorder : France from revolution to civil war
The war behind the lines : taming Napoleonic Europe
The bandit-chasers of Napoleonic Europe
Spain, the birth of guerrilla : the bandits' war?
Spanish America : a hemisphere of brigandage
The Balkans : the bandits' paradise
The people's heroes : the legacy of the bandits
Conclusion : bandits and the new order.