The British Army in the West Indies
Subtitle: society and the military in the revolutionary age
By: Roger Norman Buckley.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Gainesville, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Great Britain. Army -- Military life.; Garrisons, British -- West Indies -- History.; Sociology, Military -- West Indies, British -- History.; West Indies, British -- Social conditions.; West Indies, British -- History, Military.
Description: This Social and Political history depicts a military community being shaped and defined in an era of revolutionary change: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Within the framework of war and society, Roger Buckley gives us a detailed picture of the British West Indies army in the Caribbean theater, especially the manner in which the garrison affected, and was itself affected by, the Caribbean social, political, and economic landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-426) and index.