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Advancing with the army : medicine, the professions, and social mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850 /
A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It 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. - ;Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service du. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191514838 0191514837 1280753765 9781280753763 9786610753765 6610753768 |