This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of

The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes

The Seven Years’ War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy

Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws int