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Women, Families and the British Army 1700-1880 (Hardcover)
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Women, Families and the British Army 1700-1880 (Hardcover)
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This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks
whose lives they shared, assembling a wide body of evidence of
their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new
military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the
source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely
on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation,
and men's family ties influenced the course of events in a variety
of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space
in campaign life. Those who travelled "on the strength" of the army
received rations in return for providing services such as laundry
and nursing, but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and
condemned as a 'burden' by officers. Parents, wives, and offspring
left behind at home remained in soldiers' thoughts, despite an army
culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers'
families' suffering, both on the march and back in Britain,
attracted public attention at key points in this period as well.
This series provides, for the first time in one place, a wide body
of texts relating to common soldiers' personal lives: the women
with whom they became involved, their children, and the families
who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into
print for the first time, and resurrects accounts that have not
been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The
collection combines the observations of officers, government
officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the
ranks, and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press
accounts, especially in the nineteenth century. It also
demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the
letters, diaries, memoirs and war office papers that form the
traditional source base of military historians. This fifth volume
covers The Crimean War (1854-56).
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