Gender, War and Politics Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830

by Hagemann, Karen; Rendall, Jane; Mettele, Gisela

• ISBN13: 9780230218000
• ISBN10: 0230218008
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1820. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion.

Author Biography

KAREN HAGEMANN  is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

GISELA METTELE  is a Lecturer in the Centre for Urban Studies at the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK

JANE RENDALL  is Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, UK

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
List of Illustrations	p. xiv
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and Liberation, 1775-1830	p. 1
Empire, Colonial War and Slavery
Revolution, War, Empire: Gendering the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1776-1830	p. 41
Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean	p. 58
Freedwomen's Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue	p. 71
Masculinity, Revolution and War
Citizenship, Honour and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the French Revolution and Empire	p. 93
In the Shadow of the Citizen-Soldier: Politics and Gender in Dutch Officers' Careers, 1780-1815	p. 110
John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars	p. 127
Middle-Class Masculinity in an Immigrant Diaspora: War, Revolution and Russia's Ethnic Germans	p. 147
Warfare, Civil Society and Women
Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors, Camp Followers and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution	p. 169
'Habits Appropriate to Her Sex': The Female Military Experience in France during the Age of Revolution	p. 188
Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba	p. 206
Patriotism, Citizenship and Nation-Building
Patriotism in Practice: War and Gender Roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750-1815	p. 227
'Thinking Minds of Both Sexes': Patriotism, British Bluestockings and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775-1802	p. 247
Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars	p. 265
Celebrating War and Nation: Gender, Patriotism and Festival Culture during and after the Prussian Wars of Liberation	p. 284
Demobilization, Commemoration and Memory
Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath in Upper Canada	p. 307
Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers' Memories of the American Revolution	p. 325
'Drying Their Tears': Women's Petitions, National Reconciliation and Commemoration in Post-Independence Chile	p. 343
Index	p. 361
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