Military Medicine and the Making of Race - Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874

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.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Medical necessity and the founding of the West India Regiments; 2. The ideal soldier; 3. The use and abuse of the black soldier; 4. Statistics and the reinterpretation of black bodies; 5. Dehumanising the black soldier; 6. Damage done: the Asante campaigns; Conclusion.

About the author

Tim Lockley is Professor of North American History at the University of Warwick and the author of Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860 (2001), Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South (2007) and Maroon Communities in South Carolina (2009).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Lockley, Tim (University of Warwick) Lockley, Lockley Tim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108797139
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79713-9
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, British Empire, military history, MEDICAL / History, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Western India