Advancing with the Army - Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850
Advancing with the Army - Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850, by Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford and John Stevenson.
Published by Oxford University Press in 2006, 393 pages. Hardback with Dust Jacket (S8295RWSO)
From the rear side of the dust jacket: Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the Industrial Revolution, this is a detailed biographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service-during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. This book charts their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests.
The sub-group of medical practitioners examined in this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but disproportionately from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland. For the most part, they profited from their years in the army to set themselves up in London and other English cities, build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established part of the educated British imperial elite.
The condition of the book is generally excellent. The dust jacket has one or two very minor scuffs but is clean and bright, the spine is tight and intact, and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound.
Published by Oxford University Press in 2006, 393 pages. Hardback with Dust Jacket (S8295RWSO)
From the rear side of the dust jacket: Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the Industrial Revolution, this is a detailed biographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service-during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. This book charts their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests.
The sub-group of medical practitioners examined in this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but disproportionately from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland. For the most part, they profited from their years in the army to set themselves up in London and other English cities, build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established part of the educated British imperial elite.
The condition of the book is generally excellent. The dust jacket has one or two very minor scuffs but is clean and bright, the spine is tight and intact, and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound.
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