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

ISBN-13: 9781137270870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Catriona Kennedy; Matthew McCormack; Catriona Kennedy

Opis

The British soldier was feared and respected throughout the world in the period 1750-1850, a time when his victories helped to expand the British Empire to its greatest extent. Strangely, though, his reputation at home was rather more contradictory: the army could be politically distrusted, soldiers often occupied a marginal position in society, and even the manliness of the profession could be called into question. Men of Arms explores the intriguing figure of the British soldier, and seeks to explore "soldiering" as an activity, an identity, a career and a way of life. Chapters explore the role of social class, political radicalism and national identities, and think about soldiers as combatants, as tourists, as family men and as citizens. In so doing, the book offers fresh approaches to the study of warfare in this fascinating period of history.

Recenzje

"Readers will find literary and artistic analyses standing beside more conventional methods of investigation...it offers a fascinating glimpse into the potential for apply socio-cultural analyses to the Georgian-era British military establishment." - Patrick J. Speelman, US Merchant Marine Academy, Journal of Military History

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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