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Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

David Lambert

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Description:The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in new and illuminating ways to show how the image of these regiments really mattered. This image shaped perceptions in the Caribbean societies in which they were raised and impacted on how they were deployed there and in Africa. By examining the visual and textual representation of these soldiers, this book uncovers a complex, under-explored and illuminating figure that sat at the intersection of nineteenth-century debates about slavery and freedom; racial difference; Britishness; savagery and civilisation; military service and heroism.Demonstrates how soldiers and military matters contributed to the construction of imperial and racialized identitiesIlluminates a figure at the intersection of nineteenth-century debates about race, Britishness and military serviceExpands the scope of military history by integrating the approaches of cultural and imperial historyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Critical Perspectives on Empire). To get started finding Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Critical Perspectives on Empire), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in new and illuminating ways to show how the image of these regiments really mattered. This image shaped perceptions in the Caribbean societies in which they were raised and impacted on how they were deployed there and in Africa. By examining the visual and textual representation of these soldiers, this book uncovers a complex, under-explored and illuminating figure that sat at the intersection of nineteenth-century debates about slavery and freedom; racial difference; Britishness; savagery and civilisation; military service and heroism.Demonstrates how soldiers and military matters contributed to the construction of imperial and racialized identitiesIlluminates a figure at the intersection of nineteenth-century debates about race, Britishness and military serviceExpands the scope of military history by integrating the approaches of cultural and imperial historyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Critical Perspectives on Empire). To get started finding Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Critical Perspectives on Empire), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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