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Author : David Lambert
Release : 2024-06-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 418/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soldiers of Uncertain Rank by : David Lambert
Download or read book Soldiers of Uncertain Rank written by David Lambert. This book was released on 2024-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural, military and imperial history of the Black soldiers of Britain's West India Regiments.
Author : David Lambert
Release : 2024
Genre : Public opinion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 451/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soldiers of Uncertain Rank by : David Lambert
Download or read book Soldiers of Uncertain Rank written by David Lambert. This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the place and status of the Black soldiers of the British Army's West India Regiments from the late eighteenth century until their disbandment in 1927. Analysing their depiction in word and image, it sheds important new light on debates about race, Britishness and military service"--
Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Release : 2016
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soldiers as Workers by : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Download or read book Soldiers as Workers written by Nick Mansfield (Historian). This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.
Author : Alan Lester
Release : 2024-06-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 09X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Truth about Empire by : Alan Lester
Download or read book The Truth about Empire written by Alan Lester. This book was released on 2024-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can pinpoint it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today's polarised debates over Britain's imperial past. In the culture wars, the public's understanding of colonial history is continually distorted by wilful caricatures. With their fight to highlight Empire's horrors, communities whose voices once went unheard have alienated many who would prefer a celebratory national history. The backlash, orchestrated by elements of the media, has produced a concerted denial of British imperial racism and violence--a disinformation campaign sharing both tactics and motivations with those around Covid, Brexit and climate change. From Australia and China to India and South Africa, this essay collection is an accessible guide to the British Empire, and a shield against the assault on historical truth. The disturbing stories told in these pages, of Empire's culture, politics and economics, show why professional research matters, when deciding what can and cannot be known about Britain's colonial past.
Author : Tim Lockley
Release : 2020-04-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Military Medicine and the Making of Race by : Tim Lockley
Download or read book Military Medicine and the Making of Race written by Tim Lockley. This book was released on 2020-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.
