Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 506 g
Militarisation on the Fringes of the Empire
Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 506 g
Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
ISBN: 978-3-031-89257-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
This book examines militarisation in Scotland and North America from the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-1746 to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Employing a transatlantic, case study approach, it investigates the overarching cultural frameworks, individual circumstances, and local conditions guiding the actions and understandings of British army officers as they waged war, pacified hostile peoples, and attempted to assimilate ‘other’ population groups within the British Empire. The process of militarisation fundamentally altered how officers viewed imperial populations and implemented empire on geographical fringes, leading to the development of a military-imperial mentality where the direct and indirect experiences of the army in Scotland were transferred and adapted to the challenges the army faced in North America. Centring the British army in the imperial crisis, this book widens our understanding of eighteenth-century British imperialism and demonstrates the material role military commanders, as important agents of empire, played in the coming of the American Revolution.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction.- 2. Eighteenth-Century Military Contexts: Britain, Europe, and Empire.- 3. The British Army in Scotland.- 4.John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun.- 5. James Murray.- 6. Jeffrey Amherst.- 7. Thomas Gage.- 8.Conclusion.
