Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914

by Heather E. Streets-Salter

Book Overview

This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of 'martial races.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719069637
• ISBN13: 9780719069635
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"