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Paperback Soldiers as Workers: Class, Employment, Conflict and the Nineteenth-Century Military Book

ISBN: 1800348975

ISBN13: 9781800348974

Soldiers as Workers: Class, Employment, Conflict and the Nineteenth-Century Military

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The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men.

Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as...

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