@Book{728415518,
editor="Kennedy, Catriona",
title="Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: men of arms",
year="2013",
publisher="Palgrave Macmillan",
address="New York, NY [u.a.]",
keywords="Military life; History; Soldiers; Great Britain; History, Military; Great BritainArmyMilitary lifeHistory19th century; Great BritainArmyMilitary lifeHistory18th century; Great BritainArmyHistory19th century; Great BritainArmyHistory18th century; SoldiersGreat BritainHistory19th century; SoldiersGreat BritainHistory18th century; Great BritainHistory, Military19th century; Great BritainHistory, Military18th century",
contents="Introduction: new histories of soldiering Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack",
abstract="Introduction: new histories of soldiering / Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack -- Nation and society -- ``The greatest number walked out'': Imperial conflict and the contractual basis of military society in the early Highland regiments / Matthew Dziennik -- ``True Brittons and real Irish'': Irish catholics in the British Army during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Catriona Kennedy -- Military radicals and the making of class, 1790-1860 / Nick Mansfield -- Wars of seeing: suffering and sentiment in Joseph Wright's The dead soldier / Philip Shaw -- Military identities -- A bridge between the gap: the martial identity of the Marine Corps, 1755-1802 / Britt Zerbe -- Liberators and tourists: British soldiers in Madrid during the Peninsular War / Gavin Daly -- ``A real English soldier'': suffering, manliness and class in the mid nineteenth-century soldiers' tale / Neil Ramsey -- Citizen soldiers -- Liberty and discipline: militia training literature in mid-Georgian England / Matthew McCormack -- ``Let us play the men'': masculinity and the citizen-soldier in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Padhraig Higgins -- Creating the amateur soldier: the theory and training of Britain's volunteers / Kevin Linch -- The amateur military tradition revisited / Ian Beckett",
note="edited by Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack",
note="Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9781137270870",
language="English"
}