TY - JOUR
AU - O’Shaughnessy, Andrew J.
AB - Book Re vie ws 469 thousands of British males over the course of the eighteenth century, soldiering involved membership of an ‘auxiliary’ homeland defence force. Kevin Linch traces the rich lexicon of these diverse part-time auxiliary forces, from militia and yeomanry, to volunteers, rangers and fencibles. While the auxiliaries were uniformed, drilled and armed like regulars, the relationship between these two branches of military service was complex, and at times fraught and hostile, as Matthew McCormack makes clear in his investigation of inter-service clashes over military decorum and honour. And in terms of the lifecycle of soldiering, Caroline Nielsen highlights the ambiguous identity of Chelsea out-pensioners, discharged from the army and living in civil society, yet still subject to annual review, with the prospect of returning to the service if deemed medically fit. The book will also particularly appeal to scholars and students with an interest in soldiering and gender, an emerging field within eighteenth- century British history. A  number of chapters address themes of politeness and sensibility, military masculinities, and the relationship between civil and martial identities. McCormack, for example, examines disputes between militia and regular soldiers through the prism of honour codes shaped by models of civilian politeness 
TI - Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748–1761, by Andrew D.M. Beaumont
JO - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/cew047
DA - 2016-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/colonial-america-and-the-earl-of-halifax-1748-1761-by-andrew-d-m-IYSl8MORSR
SP - 469
EP - 471
VL - 131
IS - 549
DP - DeepDyve
ER -