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Title:

Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850 : men of arms / edited by Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--History, Military--19th century.
Great Britain.--Army--History--History--19th century.
Great Britain.--Army--History--History--18th century.
Soldiers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Soldiers--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Great Britain--History, Military--18th century.
Great Britain.--Army--History--19th century.
Great Britain.--Army--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Kennedy, Catriona, 1976-
McCormack, Matthew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: new histories of soldiering / Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack -- Nation and society -- "The greatest number walked out": Imperial conflict and the contractual basis of military society in the early Highland regiments / Matthew Dziennik -- "True Brittons and real Irish": Irish catholics in the British Army during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Catriona Kennedy -- Military radicals and the making of class, 1790-1860 / Nick Mansfield -- Wars of seeing: suffering and sentiment in Joseph Wright's The dead soldier / Philip Shaw -- Military identities -- A bridge between the gap: the martial identity of the Marine Corps, 1755-1802 / Britt Zerbe -- Liberators and tourists: British soldiers in Madrid during the Peninsular War / Gavin Daly -- "A real English soldier": suffering, manliness and class in the mid nineteenth-century soldiers' tale / Neil Ramsey -- Citizen soldiers -- Liberty and discipline: militia training literature in mid-Georgian England / Matthew McCormack -- "Let us play the men": masculinity and the citizen-solider in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Padhraig Higgins -- Creating the amateur soldier: the theory and training of Britain's volunteers / Kevin Linch -- The amateur military tradition revisited / Ian Beckett.

Series:

War, culture and society, 1750-1850

ISBN:

113727087X
9781137270870

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795175290

LCCN:

2012040891

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)