Race, Nation and the Soldier: Wellington’s Secret Weapon
Nov 11th 2021 6:00am EST
What accounts for the extraordinary expansion of British power in the 18th and 19th centuries? Most “respectable” academics offer economic reasons for British success against European powers, and take the view that Western technological superiority accounts for colonial expansion. My study of the British army of the Napoleonic era suggests a different explanation: the moral […]
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