Poachers turned gamekeepers: A study of the guerrilla phenomenon in Spain, 1808–1840

Mark Lawrence

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2014, vol. 25, issue 4, 843-857

Abstract: This article modifies the associations made by historians and political scientists of Spanish guerrilla warfare with revolutionary insurgency. First, it explains how the guerrilla phenomenon moved from a Leftist to a reactionary symbol. Second, it compares the insurgency and counter-insurgency features of the Carlist War (1833–1840) with those of the better-known Peninsular War (1808–1814). Third, it shows how erstwhile guerrilla leaders during the Carlist War made their expertise available to the counter-insurgency, in a socio-economic as well as military setting. This article revises the social banditry paradigm in nineteenth-century Spain in the under-researched context of Europe bloodiest nineteenth-century civil war.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2013.832930

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