Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

by Laurence Brockliss, Marcus Ackroyd, Michael S. Moss

Providing a statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study, of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, and wealth at death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199267065
• ISBN13: 9780199267064
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"