Spanish Prisoner in the Ruins of Napoleon's Empire
Autor Fernando Blanco White Editat de Christopher Schmidt-Nowaraen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2020
Taken prisoner by the French in 1809, Blanco White finally fled from captivity in 1814. Along with other Spanish escapees, he crossed Switzerland, the Rhineland, and the Netherlands before finally setting sail for England. Unlike most of his countrymen, who were quickly whisked back to Spain, Blanco White stayed in England for two years, during which time he composed his account of his flight across Europe. His diary offers gripping, witty, and sometimes cranky accounts of this time, as he records rich descriptions of places he passed through, his companions and fellow Spaniards, and his many encounters with soldiers and civilians. He writes vividly about his imprisonment, his fear of recapture, his renewed exercise of autonomy, and the inverse, his "slavery"--a term he employs in evocative fashion to describe both his captivity at the hands of the French and the condition of Spaniards more generally under the absolutist Bourbon monarchy. Now available in paperback, Blanco White's diary tracks firsthand the Spanish experience of war, captivity, and flight during the War of Independence.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807172889
ISBN-10: 080717288X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-10: 080717288X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
Notă biografică
Christopher Schmidt--Nowara, author of Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World, was professor of history and Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture & Civilization at Tufts University until his death in 2015.
Descriere
Offers a rare primary document from an important moment in history: the Spanish War of Independence, which culminated in the expulsion of France from the Iberian Peninsula in 1814. Fernando Blanco White's diary offers personal insights into how people in Europe and across its global empires coped with profound transformations.