Gender, War and Politics

Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and Liberation, 1775–1830

Chapter 2 Revolution, War, Empire: Gendering the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1776–1830

Chapter 3 Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean

Chapter 4 Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue

Chapter 5 Citizenship, Honour and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the French Revolution and Empire

Chapter 6 In the Shadow of the Citizen-Soldier: Politics and Gender in Dutch Officers’ Careers, 1780–1815

Chapter 7 John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars

Chapter 9 Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors, Camp Followers and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution

Chapter 10 ‘Habits Appropriate to Her Sex’: The Female Military Experience in France during the Age of Revolution

Chapter 11 Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba

Chapter 12 Patriotism in Practice: War and Gender Roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750–1815

Chapter 13 ‘Thinking Minds of Both Sexes’: Patriotism, British Bluestockings and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775–1802

Chapter 14 Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars

Chapter 15 Celebrating War and Nation: Gender, Patriotism and Festival Culture during and after the Prussian Wars of Liberation

Chapter 16 Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath in Upper Canada

Chapter 17 Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers’ Memories of the American Revolution

Chapter 18 ‘Drying Their Tears’: Women’s Petitions, National Reconciliation and Commemoration in Post-Independence Chile