The British Volunteer Movement 1794-1814
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 July 2003
- ISBN 9780199261253
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 224x145x22 mm
- Weight 532 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first major book concentrating on the volunteer force to be published for nearly a century. The volunteers were one of the largest mass movements of the eighteenth century, involving at their height about a quarter of the adult male population. Members included men as varied as William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Sir John Soane, William Pitt, and Henry Addington. Austin Gee considers how the volunteers were organized, who joined them and why, and their military and social activities.
MoreLong description:
This is the first major book concentrating on the volunteer force to be published for nearly a century. It provides a full view of the social, political, and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland, and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond. It considers the antecedents of voluntary military forces, and the government planning which led to the formation and development of the volunteers and yeomanry. It shows how the administration of volunteering fitted into the existing system of county administration and central government. It analyses the geographical spread and concentrations of volunteering in relation to the apparent threats from popular radicalism and French invasion. It considers in detail the type of men who joined the volunteers and their motivation for doing so, and those who promoted and organized the corps and the incentives they offered to recruit them. It shows how the potentially disloyal were identified and excluded. It analyses the social structure of volunteer membership and compares it with other mass organizations. It looks at the ways in which volunteering affected existing social relations, and examines the allegedly democratic aspects of corps' internal organization. It also examines the part volunteers played in festivities and entertainments, and their public image promoted in prints and sermons. The book examines the political affiliations of volunteers and the implications they had for the behaviour and use of the force. It considers criticisms of volunteering, in particular the alleged political and constitutional dangers of an armed population able to challenge the existing order. It shows how volunteering fitted into national defence planning, in particular for preparations against invasion, for evacuation and maintaining internal order. It examines in detail how the volunteers were used in policing roles.
This valuable book is of importance for our understanding of social dynamics as well as political practice and the nuances of ideological understanding and commitment in a particularly vexed period....It is well-grounded in the literature, draws on an impressive range of archival sources, and is well argued.
Table of Contents:
Preface
'So Gallant and Patriotic a Measure': The Gensis of the Volunteer Movement
The Development of Volunteering
'The Shop-Keeping Army': The Membership of Volunteer Corps
Table: Occupation Structure
A Connection of Loyalty
'To Shield Me from all Harm': The Motivation for Volunteering
The Public Face of Volunteering
'An Armed Democracy': The Political Threat of the Volunteer Movement
'The Friends of Peace and Order': Invasion, Riots, and Internal Policing
Bibliographical Note
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