Warrior Generation 1865-1885: Militarism and British Working Class Boys

by Richard Fulton

Richard Fulton's Warrior Generation 1865-1885 fundamentally rethinks the efficacy of an institutional drive among influential middle-class opinion leaders to militarize lower-class boys in Victorian Britain. He contends that instead of engendering the desired cultural militarism, as has been commonly argued, their push had merely contributed to a fast-developing culture of adventure and masculinity.

Challenging this popular assumption,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350138754
• ISBN13: 9781350138759
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"