
Napoleon's Cursed War
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With a new Introduction by Perry Anderson.
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- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Prologue: Spain's Old Order on the Eve of the Napoleonic War
- Maps
- Glossary
- Chronology
- 1. Spain and the French Connection
- 2. Preliminaries of War
- 3. The First Shots of the War
- 4. Declaration of War: The National Rising
- 5. New Self-Government: The Juntas
- 6. Early Victories and Defeats: Lessons of the Popular War
- 7. Soldiers at the Front and Rural Conflict in the Rear
- 8. Fatherland and Nation: A National Patriotic Government
- 9. Napoleon's 1808 Offensive
- 10. The Contagion of Defeat: Popular Revolts and Local Resistance
- 11. 1809
- 12. Popular Territorial Liberation Struggles: Galicia and Cataluña
- 13. The Church at War
- 14. Origins of the Guerrilla
- 15. From the Battle of Talavera to the Suprema's Demise
- 16. 1810-1811
- 17. The Invisible Army: Guerrilla Successes and Failures
- 18. 1812-1814
- 19. Military Victory and Political Defeat
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: May 2, 1808, Rising, Madrid: Identified Combatants by Occupation/Gender, Casualties and French Executions
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3: Popular Social Change and Stasis
- Appendix 4: Guerrillas
- Appendix 5: Human Costs of War (and Peace)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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