Britain’s Soldiers
：Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815
( Eighteenth-Century Worlds )
Publication subTitle ：Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815
Publication series ：Eighteenth-Century Worlds
Author： Linch Kevin McCormack Matthew
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781781385548
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781846319556
Subject： E19 military history
Language： ENG
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Description
The British soldier was a fascinating and complex figure in the century between the Hanoverian accession and the Battle of Waterloo. The ‘war and society’ approach has shed much light on Britain’s frequent experience of conflict in this period, but Britain’s Soldiers argues that it is time to refocus our attention on the humble redcoat himself, and rethink historical approaches to soldiers’ relationship with the society and culture of their day. Using approaches drawn from the histories of the military, gender, art, society, culture and medicine, this volume presents a more rounded picture of the men who served in the various branches of the British armed forces. This period witnessed an unprecedented level of mass mobilisation, yet this was largely achieved through novel forms of military service outside of the regular army. Taking a wide definition of soldiering, this collection examines the part-time and auxiliary forces of the period, as well as looking at the men of the British Army both during their service and once they had been discharged from the army. Chapters here explore the national identity of the soldier, his sense of his rights within systems of military discipline, and his relationships with military hierarchies and honour codes. They also explore the welfare systems available to old and wounded soldiers, and the ways in which soldiers were represented in art and literature. In so doing, this book sheds new light on the processes through which soldiers were ‘made’ during this crucial period of conflict. Britain’s Soldiers explores the complex figure of the Georgian soldier and rethinks current approaches to military history. List of tables and figures Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction: Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack PART 1: Nationhood 1 ‘The eighteenth-century British army as a European institution’, Stephen Conway 2 ‘Soldiering abroad: the experience of living and fighting among aliens’, Graciela Iglesias Rogers PART 2: Hierarchy 3 ‘Effectiveness and the British Officer Corps, 1793-1815’, Bruce Collins 4 ‘Stamford standoff: honour, status and rivalry in the Georgian military’, Matthew McCormack PART 3: Discipline 5 ‘“The soldiers murmered much on Account of their usage”: military justice and negotiated authority in the eighteenth-century British army’, William P. Tatum III 6 ‘Discipline and control in eighteenth-century Gibraltar’, Ilya Berkovich PART 4: Gender 7 ‘Conflicts of conduct: British masculinity and military painting in the wake of the Siege of Gibraltar’, Cicely Robinson 8 ‘Scarlet fever: female enthusiasm for men in uniform, 1780-1815’, Louise Carter PART 5: Soldiers in Society 9 ‘Disability, fraud and medical experience at the Royal Hospital of Chelsea in the long eighteenth century’, Caroline Louise Nielsen 10 ‘Making new soldiers: legitimacy, identity and attitudes, c. 1740-1815’, Kevin Linch Notes on the contributors Kevin Linch is a Principal Teaching Fellow in History at the University of Leeds and works on the military in Georgian Britain. His monograph, Britain and Wellington’s Army: Recruitment, Society, and Tradition 1807-15, was published in 2011 and other recent publications include a chapter in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820. Further contributions are forthcoming in Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms and Fighting someone else’s war? Transnational mercenaries, adven
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