Gender, War and Politics

1. Introduction: Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and Liberation, 1775–1830
Karen Hagemann, Jane Rendall

Part I. Empire, Colonial War and Slavery

2. Revolution, War, Empire: Gendering the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1776–1830
David Eltis

3. Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean
Laurent Dubois

4. Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue
Elizabeth Colwill

Part II. Masculinity, Revolution and War

5. Citizenship, Honour and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the French Revolution and Empire
Alan Forrest

6. In the Shadow of the Citizen-Soldier: Politics and Gender in Dutch Officers’ Careers, 1780–1815
Stefan Dudink

7. John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars
Catriona Kennedy

8. Middle-Class Masculinity in an Immigrant Diaspora: War, Revolution and Russia’s Ethnic Germans
Alexander M. Martin

Part III. Warfare, Civil Society and Women

9. Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors, Camp Followers and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution
Holly A. Mayer

10. ‘Habits Appropriate to Her Sex’: The Female Military Experience in France during the Age of Revolution
Thomas Cardoza

11. Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba
Sherry Johnson

Part IV. Patriotism, Citizenship and Nation-Building

12. Patriotism in Practice: War and Gender Roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750–1815
Katherine B. Aaslestad

13. ‘Thinking Minds of Both Sexes’: Patriotism, British Bluestockings and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775–1802
Emma V. Macleod

14. Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
Jane Rendall

15. Celebrating War and Nation: Gender, Patriotism and Festival Culture during and after the Prussian Wars of Liberation
Karen Hagemann

Part V. Demobilization, Commemoration and Memory

16. Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath in Upper Canada
Cecilia Morgan

17. Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers’ Memories of the American Revolution
Gregory T. Knouff

18. ‘Drying Their Tears’: Women’s Petitions, National Reconciliation and Commemoration in Post-Independence Chile
Sarah C. Chambers

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Cultural History, European History, Modern History, History of the Americas, Social History