Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. List of Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part 1: Recruitment
9. 1 Citizen Soldiers: ‘Military Spirit’ and Recruitment in Britain during the Wars against France, 1793–1815 19
10. 2 From Party of Order to Gentlemen’s Plaything – Rural Identity and the British Yeomanry Cavalry 40
11. 3 ‘Kitchener’s Mob’: Myth and Reality in Raising the New Army, 1914–15 58
12. Part 2: Experiences in the Military
13. 4 Sun, Sea and Starvation: The Logistics of the British Garrison on Minorca, 1746–56 85
14. 5 British Soldiers, Sieges, and the Laws of War: The 1807 Siege of Montevideo 103
15. 6 ‘Something-to-smoke, at the right time, is a godsend’: Voluntary Action and the Provision of Cigarettes to Soldiers during the First World War 120
16. Part 3: The Soldier in Politics and Society
17. 7 ‘Our Brother Officers in India’: The Military Lobby in Imperial Politics of the 1780s 149
18. 8 ‘A Soldier’s Life is a Merry One’, or, ‘A Certain Cure for Gout and Rheumatism’: The Shift in Popular Perceptions of the Common Soldier in Late Victorian Britain, 1870–c.1910 169
19. 9 Irish Military Cultures in the British Army, c.1775–1992 192
20. Part 4: Military Identity and Memory
21. 10 ‘Fond of Shooting?’: The Social Bonds of the Indian Army Officer Corps, 1858–1901 213
22. 11 The Social Reality of the British Army in Interwar Britain 231
23. 12 The Military Culture and Traditions of an Unmilitary People 253
24. Index 270