Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part 1 - Recruitment

pp 17-18

1 - Citizen Soldiers: ‘Military Spirit’ and Recruitment in Britain during the Wars against France, 1793–1815

pp 19-39

2 - From Party of Order to Gentlemen’s Plaything – Rural Identity and the British Yeomanry Cavalry

pp 40-57

3 - ‘Kitchener’s Mob’: Myth and Reality in Raising the New Army, 1914–15

pp 58-82

Part 2 - Experiences in the Military

pp 83-84

4 - Sun, Sea and Starvation: The Logistics of the British Garrison on Minorca, 1746–56

pp 85-102

5 - British Soldiers, Sieges, and the Laws of War: The 1807 Siege of Montevideo

pp 103-119

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

pp 120-146

Part 3 - The Soldier in Politics and Society

pp 147-148

7 - ‘Our Brother Officers in India’: The Military Lobby in Imperial Politics of the 1780s

pp 149-168

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

pp 169-191

9 - Irish Military Cultures in the British Army, c.1775–1992

pp 192-210

Part 4 - Military Identity and Memory

pp 211-212

10 - ‘Fond of Shooting?’: The Social Bonds of the Indian Army Officer Corps, 1858–1901

pp 213-230

11 - The Social Reality of the British Army in Interwar Britain

pp 231-252

12 - The Military Culture and Traditions of an Unmilitary People

pp 253-269

Index

pp 270-278