Description |
1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations. |
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online resource rdacarrier |
Series |
Eighteenth-century worlds |
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Eighteenth-century worlds.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Nationhood -- The eighteenth-century British as a European institution / Stephen Conway -- Soldiering abroad : the experience of living and fighting among aliens during Napoleonic Wars / Graciela Iglesia Rogers -- Hierarchy -- Effectiveness and the British Officer Corps, 1793-1815 / Bruce Collins -- Stamford standoff : honour, status rivalry in the Georgian military / Matthew McCormack -- Discipline -- "The soldiers murmured much on account of this usage" : military justice and negotiated authority in the eighteenth-century British Army / William P. Tatum III -- Discipline and control in eighteenth-century Gibraltar / Ilya Berkovich -- Gender -- Conflicts of conduct : British masculinity and military painting in the wake of the Siege of Gibraltar / Cicely Robinson -- Scarlet fever : female enthusiasm for men in uniform, 1780-1815 / Louise Carter -- Soldiers in society -- Disability, fraud and medical experience at the Royal Hospital of Chelsea in the long eighteenth century / Caroline Louise Nielsen -- Making new soldiers : legitimacy, identity and attitudes, c.1740-1815 / Kevin Linch. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Great Britain. Army -- Military life -- History -- 18th century.
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Linch, Kevin, 1974- editor.
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McCormack, Matthew, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Britain's soldiers : rethinking war and society, 1715-1815. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014 xii, 225 pages ; 24 cm. Eighteenth-century worlds (OCoLC)ocn861678648 |
ISBN |
9781846319556 |
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1846319552 |
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9781781385548 (electronic bk.) |
Standard No. |
60001900680 |
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