Title: Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives, 1775-1830 /
Authors: Hagemann, Karen.; Mettele, Gisela.; Rendall, Jane, 1945-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Women and war History.; War and society History; Women and war Europe History; Women and war Europe History; Women and war America History; Women and war America History; War and society Europe History; War and society Europe History; War and society America History; War and society America History
Abstract: "This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1820. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion"--
Contents: Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives on the wars of revolution and liberation, 1775-1830 / Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall -- Empire, colonial war and slavery. Revolution, war, empire : gendering the transatlantic slave trade, 1776-1830 / David Eltis ; Gendered freedom : citoyennes and war in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois ; Freedwomen's familial politics : marriage, war and rites of registry in post-emancipation Saint-Domngue / Elizabeth Colwill -- Masculinity, revolution and war. Citizenship, honour and masculinity : military qualities under the French Revolution and empire / Alan Forrest ; In the shadow of the citizen-soldier : politics and gender in Dutch officers' careers, 1780-1815 / Stefan Dudink ; John Bull into battle : military masculinity and the British army officer during the Napoleonic wars / Catriona Kennedy ; Middle-class masculinity in an immigrant diaspora : war, revolution and Russia's ethnic Germans / Alexander M. Martin --