Author: Francisco Espoz y MinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Breve extracto de la vida del general Mina
Author: Francisco Espoz y MinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Breve extracto de la vida del general Mina, publ. por el mismo
Author: Francisco Espoz y MinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Breve extracto de la vida del General Mina. Publicado por el mismo. Span. & Eng
Author: Francisco ESPOZ Y MINAPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Narratives of War
Author: Nanci AdlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429015534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records and evidence. The contributions address such issues as the tension and discrepancy between memory and the official chronicling of war, the relationship between various individuals’ versions of war narratives and the ways in which events are brought together to serve varied functions for the narrators and their audiences. Drawing upon the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the ex-Yugoslav wars, and considering narrative genres that include film, schoolbooks, novels, oral history, archives, official documents, personal testimony and memoirs, readers are introduced to a range of narrative forms and examples that highlight the complexity of narrative in relation to war. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and taken together, analysis of these narratives contributes to our understanding of the causes, experience, dynamics and consequences of war, making it the ideal book for those interested in twentieth-century war history and the history of memory and narrative.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Dead Men Telling Tales
Author: Matilda GreigPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The general and departmental libraries
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The History of Modern Spain
Author: Adrian ShubertPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147259200X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries, the book innovatively combines a strong and clear political narrative with chapters exploring a wide range of thematic topics, such as gender, family and sexuality, nations and nationalism, empire, environment, religion, migrations and Spain in world history. The volume includes a series of biographical sketches of influential Spaniards from intellectual, cultural, economic and political spheres which provides an interesting, alternative way into understanding the last 220 years of Spanish history. The History of Modern Spain also has a glossary, a chronology and a further reading list. This is essential reading for all students of the modern history of Spain.
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