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Napoleonic Foot Soldiers and Civilians

First  Edition©2011 Rafe Blaufarb; Claudia Liebeskind

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Focusing on the experiences of common soldiers and civilians during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic Foot Soldiers and Civilians explores core civil-military interactions such as foraging, plunder, sexuality, violence, eating, religion, and commerce to create a deeper picture of life for solider during this time period.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface
 
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: AN AGE OF TOTAL WAR?
     The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815    
     Recruitment and Evasion        
     The Military Community        
     Combat and Its Aftermath        
     The Homefront 
     Life After Service
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS        
     1. General Marbot, Memoirs, 1844       
     2. Benjamin Harris, Recollections, 1848 
     3. Louis-Gabriel Montigny, Account of a Canteen Woman, 1833   
     4. French Intelligence Report on British India, 1807  
     5. Correspondence of William Lee, U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1806-9
     6. Popular Images of Napoleonic Warfare 
          Appel de Contingent Communal
          Distribution de la Viande au Camp 
          Tableau de la Guerre
          Siege de Saragossa
          Passage de la Beresina
          15 August 
     7. Giovani Patrizi, Memoirs, c.1817       
     8. Jakob Walter, Memoirs, c.1820-1840      
     9. Friederich Ludwig Burk, Diary, 1806-1816     
     10. Julie Pellizzone, Journal, 1813-1815      
Appendixes
     A Chronology of the Revolutionary and  Napoleonic Wars  (1792-1816)
     Questions for Consideration
     Selected Bibliography
Index

Rafe Blaufarb

Rafe Blaufarb (PhD, University of Michigan) is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair in Napoleonic History and the Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He is the author of The French Army, 1750–1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (2002) and Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835 (2005), and has published articles in Annales, H.S.S., French Historical Studies, French History Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, and Annales historiques de la Révolution Francaise. He has taught at the Université Paul-Valéry III (Montpellier) and he has received fellowships and research grants from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, and Camargo Foundation, as well as a Bourse Chateaubriand.

Claudia Liebeskind

Claudia Liebeskind (PhD, University of London) is associate professor of history at Florida State University, where she teaches world history, South Asian history, and the history of Islam.  She is the author of Piety on Its Knees: Three Sufi Traditions in South Asia in Modern Times (1998).