1st Edition
The Redcoat and Religion The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War
By Michael Snape
Copyright 2006
332 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian... Read more
1. Religion, the Soldier and the Rise of Methodism, 1702-1793 2. The soldier and Society, 1793-1914 3. The Churches and the Soldier, 1793-1914 4. The Soldier and the Churches, 1793-1914 5. Religion and the British Military Experience, 1793-1914
Biography
Michael Snape is Lecturer in Modern History at the Unviersity of Birmingham and a member of the University of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies. He is author of The Redcoat and Religion: The British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War (Routledge, 2005) and The Church of England in Industrialising Society (2003).
