Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and Liberation, 1775–1830....Pages 1-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Revolution, War, Empire: Gendering the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1776–1830....Pages 41-57
Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean....Pages 58-70
Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue....Pages 71-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Citizenship, Honour and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the French Revolution and Empire....Pages 93-109
In the Shadow of the Citizen-Soldier: Politics and Gender in Dutch Officers’ Careers, 1780–1815....Pages 110-126
John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars....Pages 127-146
Middle-Class Masculinity in an Immigrant Diaspora: War, Revolution and Russia’s Ethnic Germans....Pages 147-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors, Camp Followers and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution....Pages 169-187
‘Habits Appropriate to Her Sex’: The Female Military Experience in France during the Age of Revolution....Pages 188-205
Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba....Pages 206-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Patriotism in Practice: War and Gender Roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750–1815....Pages 227-246
‘Thinking Minds of Both Sexes’: Patriotism, British Bluestockings and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775–1802....Pages 247-264
Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars....Pages 265-283
Celebrating War and Nation: Gender, Patriotism and Festival Culture during and after the Prussian Wars of Liberation....Pages 284-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath in Upper Canada....Pages 307-324
Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers’ Memories of the American Revolution....Pages 325-342
‘Drying Their Tears’: Women’s Petitions, National Reconciliation and Commemoration in Post-Independence Chile....Pages 343-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-374