Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century: 'The Girl I Left Behind Me'

Abstract

Introduction: Locating Military Marriage in Eighteenth-Century London 1. They Also Served: State Policies Toward Wives & Wives' Duties to the State 2. Women in the Manning of the Army: Wives' and Sweethearts' Roles in Recruitment and Retention 3. Military Masculinities: Soldiers, Women, and Masculine Identity 4. The Feminine side of Esprit de Corps: Wives and Women's Place in Army Culture 5. The Home Front: Courtship, Love, Separation, and Loss 6. Making Marriage Work: Economic and Emotional Survival Strategies Epilogue

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