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Title Britain's soldiers : rethinking war and society, 1715-1815 / edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Eighteenth-century worlds
Eighteenth-century worlds.
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.
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Linch, Kevin, 1974- editor.
McCormack, Matthew, editor.
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
1846319552
9781781385548 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 60001900680

 
    
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