Britain's soldiers : rethinking war and society, 1715-1815 / / edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack
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Britain's soldiers : rethinking war and society, 1715-1815 / / edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 355.1094109033 |
| Soggetto topico: | Soldiers - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Armed Forces History 18th century |
| Great Britain History, Military 18th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | LinchKevin <1974-> |
| McCormackMatthew | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Britains Soldiers explores the complex figure of the Georgian soldier and rethinks current approaches to military history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Britain's soldiers |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-554-8 |
| 1-78138-716-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460391303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Eighteenth-century worlds.