Britain's soldiers : rethinking war and society, 1715-1815 / edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nationhood -- The eighteenth-century British as a European institution / Stephen Conway -- Soldiering abroad : the experience of living and fighting among aliens during Napoleonic Wars / Graciela Iglesia Rogers -- Hierarchy -- Effectiveness and the British Officer Corps, 1793-1815 / Bruce Collins -- Stamford standoff : honour, status rivalry in the Georgian military / Matthew McCormack -- Discipline -- "The soldiers murmured much on account of this usage" : military justice and negotiated authority in the eighteenth-century British Army / William P. Tatum III -- Discipline and control in eighteenth-century Gibraltar / Ilya Berkovich -- Gender -- Conflicts of conduct : British masculinity and military painting in the wake of the Siege of Gibraltar / Cicely Robinson -- Scarlet fever : female enthusiasm for men in uniform, 1780-1815 / Louise Carter -- Soldiers in society -- Disability, fraud and medical experience at the Royal Hospital of Chelsea in the long eighteenth century / Caroline Louise Nielsen -- Making new soldiers : legitimacy, identity and attitudes, c.1740-1815 / Kevin Linch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.