Introduction: new histories of soldiering / Catriona Kennedy and Matthew McCormack Nation and society ; "The greatest number walked out": Imperial conflict and the contractual basis of military society in the early Highland regiments / Matthew Dziennik "True Brittons and real Irish": Irish catholics in the British Army during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Catriona Kennedy Military radicals and the making of class, 1790-1860 / Nick Mansfield Wars of seeing: suffering and sentiment in Joseph Wright's The dead soldier / Philip Shaw Military identities ; A bridge between the gap: the martial identity of the Marine Corps, 1755-1802 / Britt Zerbe Liberators and tourists: British soldiers in Madrid during the Peninsular War / Gavin Daly "A real English soldier": suffering, manliness and class in the mid nineteenth-century soldiers' tale / Neil Ramsey Citizen soldiers ; Liberty and discipline: militia training literature in mid-Georgian England / Matthew McCormack "Let us play the men": masculinity and the citizen-solider in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Padhraig Higgins Creating the amateur soldier: the theory and training of Britain's volunteers / Kevin Linch The amateur military tradition revisited / Ian Beckett. |