Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874

ISBN-13: 9781108797139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 221 str.

Tim (University of Warwick) Lockley

Opis

Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

Recenzje

'… a detailed examination of … notions of race.' R. T. Ingoglia, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Medical necessity and the founding of the West India Regiments; 2. The ideal soldier; 3. The use and abuse of the black soldier; 4. Statistics and the reinterpretation of black bodies; 5. Dehumanising the black soldier; 6. Damage done: the Asante campaigns; Conclusion.