Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars

Author: Mark Frost

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1501755862

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In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized. Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars is a transnational look at how the empire did not always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis, and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute both wars. Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou, Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der Waag

Army and Empire
Army and Empire

Author: Michael Norman McConnell

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0803232330

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The end of the Seven Years? War found Britain?s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between British, French, and Spanish America. There the soldiers found themselves serving as occupiers, police, and diplomats in a vast territory marked by extreme climatic variation?a world decidedly different from Britain or the settled American colonies. Going beyond the war experience, Army and Empire examines the lives and experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers of the West in British America. From the first appearance of the redcoats in the West until the outbreak of the American Revolution, Michael N. McConnell explores all aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers? diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, clothing, and the built environments within which they lived and worked. McConnell looks at the army on the frontier for what it was: a collection of small communities of men, women, and children faced with the challenges of surviving on the far western edge of empire.

Army of Empire
Army of Empire

Author: George Morton-Jack

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 0465094074

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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.

Army, Empire, and Cold War
Army, Empire, and Cold War

Author: David French

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0199548234

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David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.

Scotland and the British Empire
Scotland and the British Empire

Author: John M. MacKenzie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0199573247

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Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the Empire.

Soldiers of Empire
Soldiers of Empire

Author: Tarak Barkawi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107169585

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Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

The British End of the British Empire
The British End of the British Empire

Author: Sarah Stockwell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1107070317

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The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.

The British Empire
The British Empire

Author: Stephen W. Sears

Publisher: New Word City

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 759

ISBN-13: 1612308090

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In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution. Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.

Three Victories and a Defeat
Three Victories and a Defeat

Author: Brendan Simms

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 0786727225

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In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies. An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.