(SBN) 9780230218000 (hbk.) :||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives on the wars of revolution and liberation, 1775-1830 / Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall -- Empire, colonial war and slavery. Revolution, war, empire : gendering the transatlantic slave trade, 1776-1830 / David Eltis ; Gendered freedom : citoyennes and war in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois ; Freedwomen's familial politics : marriage, war and rites of registry in post-emancipation Saint-Domngue / Elizabeth Colwill -- Masculinity, revolution and war. Citizenship, honour and masculinity : military qualities under the French Revolution and empire / Alan Forrest ; In the shadow of the citizen-soldier : politics and gender in Dutch officers' careers, 1780-1815 / Stefan Dudink ; John Bull into battle : military masculinity and the British army officer during the Napoleonic wars / Catriona Kennedy ; Middle-class masculinity in an immigrant diaspora : war, revolution and Russia's ethnic Germans / Alexander M. Martin -- Warfare, civil society and women. Bearing arms, bearing burdens : women warriors, camp followers and home-front heroines of the American Revolution / Holly A. Mayer ; 'Habits appropriate to her sex' : the female military experience in France during the age of revolution / Thomas Cardoza ; Maintaining the home front : widows, wives and war in late eighteenth-century Cuba / Sherry Johnson -- Patriotism, citizenship and nation-building. Patriotism in practice : war and gender roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750-1815 / Katherine B. Aaslestad ; 'Thinking minds of both sexes' : patriotism, British bluestockings and the wars against revlolutionary America and France, 1775-1802 / Emma V. Macleod ; Women writing war and empire : gender, poetry and politics in Britain during the Napoleonic wars / Jane Rendall ; Celebrating war and nation : gender, patriotism and festival culture during and after the Prussian wars of liberation / Karen Hagemann -- Demobilization, commemoration and memory. Gender, loyalty and virtue in a colonial context : the war of 1812 and its aftermath in upper Canada / Cecilia Morgan ; Masculinity, race and citizenship : soldiers' memories of the American Revolution / Gregory T. Knouff ; 'Drying their tears' : women's petitions, national reconciliation and commemoration in post-independence Chile / Sarah C. Chambers.||(SUM) "This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1820. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion"-- Provided by publisher. 

xvii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (hbk)