Paoli to Stony Point: Military Ethics and Weaponry During the American Revolution

Starkey, Armstrong

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“…25 Historian Armstrong Starkey undertook an ethical analysis of the behavior of British soldiers in combat during the American Revolution in his 1994 article, which also has implications for understanding the effects of concepts of masculinity upon the army. 26 Paul Kopperman provided a similarly novel investigation of the affects of drunkenness on the social fabric of the Army and the experience of soldiers. 27 Transitioning between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, gender historians Kathleen Wilson and Fraser Easton have examined the roles of women in the army, with Wilson concentrating on women camp followers and Easton examining women who passed for male soldiers.…”

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Challenging the New Military History: The Case of Eighteenth‐Century British Army Studies

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2006

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Since the 1950s, academic military history has experienced an explosion in the quantity and quality of its scholarship. Historians have traditionally attributed this expansion to the advent of the “New Military History.” This article challenges the conventional account of academic military history's expansion by examining the past thirty years of work on the eighteenth‐century British Army. The results of this analysis will be used to suggest replacing the traditional divide between new and old military history with the more utilitarian subfields of the History of War and the History of the Army.

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