Popular Resistance in the French Wars

In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy.

List of Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Popular Resistance in Napoleanic Europe: Issues and Perspectives; C.J.Esdaile The Ubiquitous Brigand: The Politics and Language of Repression; A.Forrest Guerrilla Warfare Avant la Lettre: Northern Italy, 1792-97; M.Boycott-Brown Resistance, Collaboration or Third Way? Responses to Napoleonic Rule in Germany; M.Rowe Popular Resistance in Catalonia: Somatens and Miquelets in Catalonia, 1808-14; A.M.Prada The Anatomy of a Research Project: The Sociology of the Guerrilla War in Spain, 1808-14; C.J.Esdaile & L.Hernadez-Enviz Regulating the Irregulars: Spanish Legislation on La Guerrilla During the Peninsular War; V.Scotti-Douglas The Pen and the Sword: Political Catechisms and Resistance to Napoleon; E.Delivré The Patriotism of the Russian Army in the ''Patriotic'' or ''Fatherland'' War of 1812; J.Hartley Afterword: Patriots, Pirates and Land Pirates in Retrospect; C.J.Esdaile Index