Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Author: Tim Lockley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108495621

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

The Caribbean Slave

The Caribbean Slave
Author: Kenneth F. Kiple
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521524704

A comprehensive analysis of the biological experience of black slaves in the Caribbean.

Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7

Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7
Author: Peter J Kitson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000742296

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II vol 9

The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II vol 9
Author: Kate Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000749312

Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry.

The African Link

The African Link
Author: Anthony J. Barker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000647560

The African Link, first published in 1978, breaks new ground in the studies of pre-19th century racial prejudice by emphasizing the importance of the West African end of the slave trade. For the British, the important African link was the commercial one which brought slave traders into contact with the peoples of West Africa. Far from remaining covert, their experiences were reflected in a vast array of scholarly, educational, popular and polemical writing. The picture of Black Africa that emerges from these writings is scarcely favourable – yet through the hostility of traders and moralising editors appear glimpses of respect and admiration for African humanity, skills and artefacts. The crudest generalisations about Black Africa are revealed as the inventions of credulous medieval geographers and of the late 18th century pro-slavery lobby. The author combines the more matter-of-fact reports of the intervening centuries with analysis of 17th and 18th century social and scientific theories to fill a considerable gap in the history of racial attitudes.

Advancing with the Army

Advancing with the Army
Author: Marcus Ackroyd
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2007-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191514837

Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that could be played by the nascent professions in this period in promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but profited from their years in the army to build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the native country and frequently settled in London and other English cities, where they often became pillars of the community.

Difference and Disease

Difference and Disease
Author: Suman Seth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108304850

Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.