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Military Medicine and the Making of Race - Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874 (Paperback)
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Military Medicine and the Making of Race - Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874 (Paperback)
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This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape
attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. The West
India Regiments were part of the British military establishment for
132 years, generating vast records with details about every one of
their 100,000+ recruits which made them the best-documented group
of black men in the Atlantic World. Tim Lockley shows how, in the
late eighteenth century, surgeons established in medical literature
that white and black bodies were radically different, forging a
notion of the 'superhuman' black soldier able to undertake physical
challenges far beyond white soldiers. By the late 1830s, however,
military statisticians would contest these ideas and highlight the
vulnerabilities of black soldiers instead. The popularity and
pervasiveness of these publications spread far beyond British
military or medical circles and had a significant international
impact, particularly in the US, both reflecting and reinforcing
changing notions about blackness.
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