In this important new study, the author re-examines the debates on the eighteenth-century militia, and argues that military reform was informed and driven by concerns about politics, nationalism, and gender, taking examples from areas of military life such as physical training, masculine honour, material culture, self-identity, and citizenship.
In this important new study, the author re-examines the debates on the eighteenth-century militia, and argues that military reform was informed and driven by concerns about politics, nationalism, and gender, taking examples from areas of military life such as physical training, masculine honour, material culture, self-identity, and citizenship.
Matthew McCormack is Associate Professor of History at the University of Northampton. His research focuses on eighteenth-century Britain and he has published widely on masculinity, politics and war. His books include The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England (2005) and several edited collections. He currently the editor of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Introduction PART I: REPRESENTATION 1: Gender and the New Militia 2: The Affair of the Hanoverian Soldier 3: The Militia in Satirical Prints PART II: PRACTICE 4: Numbering the Fighting Men 5: Training the Militia 6: Army Versus Militia 7: The Material Culture of the Militiaman 8: Supporting the Civil Power 9: Citizen Soldiers? Conclusion Bibliography
Introduction PART I: REPRESENTATION 1: Gender and the New Militia 2: The Affair of the Hanoverian Soldier 3: The Militia in Satirical Prints PART II: PRACTICE 4: Numbering the Fighting Men 5: Training the Militia 6: Army Versus Militia 7: The Material Culture of the Militiaman 8: Supporting the Civil Power 9: Citizen Soldiers? Conclusion Bibliography
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