Heather Streets is Assistant Professor of British and British Imperial History at Washington State University
发表于2024-11-20
Martial Races 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As "martial races" these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies--a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire.
Martial Races 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书