| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century �The Girl I Left Behind Me� ""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Locating Military Marriage in Eighteenth-Century London""; ""1: They Also Served: State Policies Toward Wives and Wives� Duties to the State""; ""ATTEMPTS AT REPRESSION""; ""COUNTER CURRENTS""; ""LEFT BEHIND, BUT STILL SERVING""; ""DEMANDING THE REWARDS OF SERVICE""; ""CONCLUSION"" |
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""2: Women in the Manning of the Army: Wives� and Sweethearts� Roles in Recruitment and Retention""""RECRUITMENT AND ADVANCEMENT""; ""FIGHTING IMPRESSMENT""; ""DISCOURAGING DESERTION AND DEFECTION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3: Military Masculinities: Soldiers, Women, and Masculine Identity""; ""KEEPING UP APPEARANCES""; ""WOMANIZING AT HOME AND ABROAD""; ""MARRIAGE AND MARTIAL MASCULINITY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""4: The Feminine Side of Esprit de Corps: Wives� and Women�s Place in Army Culture""; ""MISOGYNY IN THE CORPS""; ""SHAPING THE ARMY WIFE""; ""FEMININE INFLUENCES ON ARMY CULTURE"" |
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""CONCLUSION""""5: The Home Front: Courtship, Love, Separation, and Loss""; ""ATTEMPTING MARRIAGE""; ""REMAINING TOGETHER WHILE LIVING APART""; ""TESTING THE MATRIMONIAL BOND""; ""ENJOYING MARRIAGE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""6: Making Marriage Work: Economic and Emotional Survival Strategies""; ""ENLISTING TO SURVIVE""; ""MARRIAGE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES""; ""BEGGING, BORROWING, AND STEALING""; ""IGNORING THE PAIN""; ""CONCLUSION""; "" Epilogue ""; "" Bibliography ""; ""UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES""; ""PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES""; ""1. Newspapers and Periodicals""; ""2. Prints and Cartoons"" |
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""3. Ballads""""4. Contemporary Books, Pamphlets, Plays, Poems, Tracts, Sermons, and Transcribed Manuscripts""; ""UNPUBLISHED SECONDARY SOURCES""; ""PUBLISHED SECONDARY SOURCES""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Jennine Hurl-Eamon examines the relationships between soldiers and their wives during the long 18th century in Britain, particularly focusing on the wives who stayed at home while their husbands went to war |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014) |
| Subject |
Army spouses -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Army spouses -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Marriage -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Army spouses
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Marriage
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191761362 |
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0191761362 |
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0191502766 |
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9780191502767 |
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1306300304 |
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9781306300308 |
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