England and her soldiers
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England and her soldiers
（The Pickering masters, . Harriet Martineau's writing on British history and military reform ; v. 6）
Pickering & Chatto, 2005
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Martineau on British history
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Description
This edition of Martineau's history consists primarily of the History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, as well as the introductory History of England , AD 1800 to 1815. MartineauaEURO (TM)s work thus encompasses British history from the turn of the nineteenth century through the Crimean War. Along with extensive annotations, this edition features a comprehensive introduction discussing Martineau's life and work, her role as a historian, her pioneering contributions to the emerging discipline of historiography as well as the workaEURO (TM)s reception history.
Table of Contents
- Volumes 1-5 History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an introduction 1800 to 1815 (1864) Volume 1 begins with the year 1790 telling the story of the aftermath of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Volumes 2-5, cover a period known as the thirty years' peace which became, unofficially, the forty years' peace. This was a fascinating period which saw, amongst other things, the impact of industrialism on society, the 1832 Reform Bill, the rise and fall of Chartism and the famine years in Ireland . Volume 6 England and her Soldiers (1859)
- Daily News leaders on sanitary reform in the armed forces: 'Army Hygiene' (14 January 1859 and 18 January 1859)
- 'Royal Commission on the Sanitary Condition of the Army' (26 January 1859)
- 'Reconstitution of the Army Medical Department' ( 11 February 1859 )
- 'An appeal to the Minister of War: Why the Delay?'(16 February 1859)
- 'Sanitary reform for preventable epidemic disease as a matter of national security' (5 March 1859)
- 'Sidney Herbert and barrack reform' (27 June 1859)
- 'Overview of sanitary reform in the military in Review of the Year' (31 December 1859)
- 'Health in the Camps', 'Health in the Hospitals', Atlantic Monthly (1861)
- Previously unpublished correspondence between Martineau and Florence Nightingale addressing health, illness, mortality, preventable disease, and nationalism
- Selections from Once a Week: 'Florence Nightingale's Latest Charity' (15 August 1863)
- 'The Training of Nurses' (30 June 1860)
- '3 Woman's Battlefield' (3 December 1859)
- 'The Soldier and Sailor: Their Health' (5 January 1861)
- 'Nurses Wanted', Cornhill Magazine (1865)
- 'Miss Nightingale's Notes on Nursing', Quarterly Review (1860).
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