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Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902 (Warfare, Society and Culture)

Name: Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902 (Warfare, Society and Culture)
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by I. F. W. Beckett

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Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire examines the volunteer and auxiliary forces that expanded alongside Britain’s nineteenth-century imperial power. The essays consider militia, rifle volunteers and other part-time soldiers between the early Victorian period and the South African War, asking how local service, social class, patriotism and imperial defence interacted. Together they show that military participation extended well beyond the regular army and formed an important part of Victorian civic culture.