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published: Dec 2018
ISBN:9780774837569
publisher: UBC Press

Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949

edited by Douglas E. Delaney; Robert C. Engen & Meghan Fitzpatrick

tagged: history
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Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Military Education and the British Empire is the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing together the world’s top scholars on the subject, this book places distinct national narratives – Canadian, Australian, South African, British, and Indian – within a comparative context. Ultimately, this book allows readers to consider the connections between education and empire from a transnational perspective.

About the Authors

Douglas E. Delaney


Robert C. Engen


Meghan Fitzpatrick

Contributor Notes

Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Soldiers’ General: Bert Hoffmeister at War, which won the 2007 C.P. Stacey Prize for Canadian Military History; Corps Commanders: Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-1945; and The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902-1945. Robert C. Engen is an assistant professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War and Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army. Meghan Fitzpatrick is a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. A graduate of King’s College London, she is the author of Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War.

 

John Connor, Claire Cookson-Hills, Howard G. Coombs, E. Jane Errington, Mark Frost, Alan Jeffreys, Andrew Lambert, Joseph Moretz, Andrew Stewart, Ian van der Waag, Randall Wakelam.

Editorial Reviews

This collection makes important contributions to on-going historiography by centring military education as a point of analysis rather than treating it as an aside and by placing it within transnational context.

— Historical Studies in Education

"[T]his important, timely, and authoritative volume brings the history of military education to bear on matters of contemporary and continuing relevance."

— History of Education

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