Military Medicine and the Making of Race : Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874 - 9781108797139

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.

• | : Tim Lockley (University of Warwick)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 11, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 221 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 110879713X
• | ISBN-13: 9781108797139