Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.

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"Between 1808 and 1814 many British soldiers found a substitute for the traditional 'grand tour' in the 'tour de force' represented by the Peninsular War. In this book, meanwhile, we have a 'tour de force' of another kind: as comprehensive as it is elegant, it should catapult its author to the very forefront of the historiography." - Professor Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool, UK

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University of Tasmania, Australia

Gavin Daly

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Gavin Daly is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

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Book Title: The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
Book Subtitle: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
Authors: Gavin Daly
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323835
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32382-8Published: 23 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45882-0Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32383-5Published: 23 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 302
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Military, European History, Social History, Modern History, Cultural History

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