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A Spanish Prisoner in the Ruins of Napoleon's Empire - The Diary of Fernando Blanco White's Flight to Freedom (Paperback)
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A Spanish Prisoner in the Ruins of Napoleon's Empire - The Diary of Fernando Blanco White's Flight to Freedom (Paperback)
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A Spanish Prisoner in the Ruins of Napoleon's Empire 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, a
Spaniard whose family made its fortune in trade in Seville -
historically Spain's vital link to its American empire- experienced
the turmoil of this time period, both as a prisoner of war and as a
free man. Blanco White's diary offers personal insights into how
people in Europe and across its global empires coped with these
profound transformations. 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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