1st Edition

The Radical Soldier's Tale John Pearman, 1819-1908

By Carolyn Steedman Copyright 1988
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about. Carolyn Steedman introduces the... Read more

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Map I; Map II; Part 1; 1. Writers, Editors and Historians 2. A Working Life 3. Soldiers’ Stories 4. ‘A Low Order of Men’ 5. The Practice of Writing 6. The Propulsion of Experience 7. Public and Private; Part 2; Note on the Dating of John Pearman’s ‘Memoir’; Note on the Transcription of John Pearman’s ‘Memoir’; A Transcript of ‘Memos of Late Sergeant John Pearman of H. Mgt 3rd or Kings Own Light Dragoons’; Notes to the Transcript; Notes; Bibliography; Working Class Military Autobiography; Index

Biography

Carolyn Steedman