The British Armed Nation, 1793-1815
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 July 1997
- ISBN 9780198206583
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 242x162x21 mm
- Weight 577 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
This book deals with the impact of war on the British Isles, examining the armed response to the French strategic encirclement of Britain and Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Dr Cookson provides the first comprehensive survey of the mobilization of armed force for the regular army, militia, and volunteers, in England, Scotland, and Ireland. He shows the effect on Scottish and Irish identities, and how in England mobilization often owed more to working-class pragmatism and the `town-making' interests of urban rulers than to national defence patriotism.
MoreLong description:
This book deals with the impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars on the British Isles. Previous work has concentrated on the ideological formations associated with the French conflict, especially anti-revolutionary loyalism and ideas of Britishness. Here, Dr Cookson provides a new perspective on the social response to the demands of war, through a detailed examination of the mobilization of armed force for the regular army, militia, and volunteers in response to the French encirclement of Britain and Ireland.
Dr Cookson's study sheds interesting light on the nature of the British state and the extent of its dependence on society's self-organizing powers. He uses the evidence on mobilization to show the differences in the nature of state and society in various parts of the British Isles, and examines the impact on Scottish and Irish identities within the unions. In England, he shows how mobilization often owed more to working-class pragmatism and the `town-making' interests of urban rulers than to national defence patriotism. The result is a fascinating `war and society' study which is also a significant contribution to urban history.
In The British Armed Nation, we have at last dsecured a pulication which does justice to the enormous military efforts made by successive British governments during the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. ... Among the strengths of Dr Cookson's work is the first full discussion of the volunteering movemnet for home defence. ... This work should be essential reading for anyone who has an interest in the wartime events in any portion of Great Britain and Ireland and should be of particular interest to historians of Scotland.
