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Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms
This collection examines soldiers as combatants, tourists, family men and as citizens. In particular, chapters trace the theme of the 'citizen soldier' through the initiatives of the period that placed civilian men under arms. In these ways and more, this new book explores 'soldiering' as an activity, an identity, a career and a way of life.
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Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms
This collection examines soldiers as combatants, tourists, family men and as citizens. In particular, chapters trace the theme of the 'citizen soldier' through the initiatives of the period that placed civilian men under arms. In these ways and more, this new book explores 'soldiering' as an activity, an identity, a career and a way of life.
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Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms

Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms

Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms

Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms

Overview

This collection examines soldiers as combatants, tourists, family men and as citizens. In particular, chapters trace the theme of the 'citizen soldier' through the initiatives of the period that placed civilian men under arms. In these ways and more, this new book explores 'soldiering' as an activity, an identity, a career and a way of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137270870
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/07/2012
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

IAN BECKETT Visiting Professor of Military History at the University of Kent, UK
GAVIN DALY Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia
MATTHEW DZIENNIK received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
PADHRAIG HIGGINS Associate Professor of History at Mercer County College, New Jersey, USA
KEVIN LINCH Principal Teaching Fellow in History at the University of Leeds and works on the military in Georgian Britain
NICK MANSFIELD Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
NEIL RAMSEY Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
PHILIP SHAW Professor of Romantic Studies in the School of English at the University of Leicester, UK
BRITT ZERBE Member of the Centre for Maritime History at the University of Exeter, UK

Table of Contents

List of Figures Foreword to the Series Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: New Histories of Soldiering; C.Kennedy & M.McCormack PART I: NATION AND SOCIETY 'The Greatest Number Walked Out': Imperial Conflict and the Contractual Basis of Military Society in the Early Highland Regiments; M.Dziennik 'True Brittons and Real Irish': Irish Catholics in the British Army during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; C.Kennedy Military Radicals and the Making of Class, 1790-1860; N.Mansfield Wars of Seeing: Suffering and Sentiment in Joseph Wright's The Dead Soldier; P.Shaw PART II: MILITARY IDENTITIES A Bridge Between the Gap: the Martial Identity of the Marine Corps, 1755-1802; B.W.Zerbe Liberators and Tourists: British Soldiers in Madrid during the Peninsular War; G.Daly 'A Real English Soldier': Suffering, Manliness and Class in the Mid Nineteenth-Century Soldiers' Tale; N.Ramsey PART III: CITIZEN SOLDIERS Liberty and Discipline: Militia Training Literature in mid-Georgian England; M.McCormack 'Let Us Play the Men': Masculinity and the Citizen-Solider in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland; P.Higgins Creating the Amateur Soldier: the Theory and Training of Britain's Volunteers; K.Linch The Amateur Military Tradition Revisited; I.F.W.Beckett Bibliography Index
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