Military medicine and the making of race: life and death in the west india regiments, 1795–1874
Auteur :
Lockley, Tim
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108495622
Date de publication :
2 avr. 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,0 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
440 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using military-medical literature about the West India Regiments, Lockley shows how Britain's black soldiers were central to intellectual debates around ideas of blackness and whiteness in the Atlantic world.