Martial Masculinities by Michael Brown
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. This collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.-
Containing trauma
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Contesting home defence
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Behind enemy lines
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Working in a World of Hurt
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A New Naval History
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Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'
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The stomach for fighting
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The Secret Battle
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Healing the nation
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Joining up in the Second World War
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Home front heroism
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Little wars of empire
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Understanding the Imaginary War
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From Victory to Vichy
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Dying for the Nation
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Civilians into Soldiers
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Women of War
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The Silent Morning
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Mobilizing nature
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Picturing the Western Front
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Imagining Armenia
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Europe on the Move
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War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain
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Paris and the Commune 1871-78
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French Crime Fiction and the Second World War
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John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War
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Brothers in the Great War
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The Unimagined Community
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The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People
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Civvies
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The Korean War in Britain
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Haunted Britain
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Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
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Statelessness after Arendt
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The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18
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Men in Reserve
'In a superbly written epilogue, Isaac Land offers a final synthesis of the chapters while presenting his own original research on cross-dressing women in uniform[...] Ultimately, Martial Masculinities reminds us of the need to look beneath the homogenous surface presented by uniformed, drilled troops in the age of horse and musket. Moreover, it makes it clear that the influence of military gender ideals went far beyond those who donned a uniform.'
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Michael Brown is Reader in History at the University of Roehampton
Anna Maria Barry is a Research Assistant at the Royal College of Music Museum
Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526135629 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526135620 |
| Title | Martial Masculinities |
| Author | Michael Brown |
| Series | Cultural History Of Modern War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2019-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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