Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902

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african
Amateur Military Tradition
Annual Musters
Army
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auxiliary forces
Boer Commando
Bombay (Mumbai)
Calcutta (Kolkata)
Canadian Militia
Cape Colony
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Citizen Forces
Citizen Soldiers
Class
Colonial Administration
colonial defence
Colonization
Colony
Commando System
Development
Diamonds
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force
Free State
Garrison
Gender
Gold
Governance
Ideology
imperial
imperial warfare
Imperial Yeomanry
infantry
Johannesburg
London
Military
militia studies
mounted
Mounted Infantry
Mounted Rifles
Natal
Natal Carbineers
nineteenth-century armed forces
North West Rebellion
Penjdeh Crisis
Race
Railways
Regular Army
Revolution
Rifle Volunteers
Royal Munster Fusiliers
Settlement
Shipping
south
South African War
Transvaal
units
Victorian military history
volunteer
volunteer military organisations research
Volunteer Regiments
Volunteer Units
war
yeomanry
Younger Men
Zealand Wars

Product details

  • ISBN 9781848932043
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.

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