Military medicine and the making of race : life and death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 12128
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108495622
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book offers a fresh perspective on racial thought in the nineteenth century, using military-medical records relating to the West India Regiments to show how black soldiers were absolutely central to intellectual debates. Extensive use was made of War Office and Colonial Office records including official correspondence (c.150 vols), inspection reports (57 vols), courts martial, medical reports (c.170 vols) and regimental returns (26 vols). The vast majority had never been used for academic research before. In addition, hundreds of medical and military periodicals published in the UK and US, and c.150 contemporary publications were consulted.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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