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\"A people's history of life in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars\"-- Provided by publisher.

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 during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons’ occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that could be played by the nascent professions in this period in promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but profited from their years in the army to build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the native country and frequently settled in London and other English cities, where they often became pillars of the community.

01 02 The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. The three British colonies of Grenada, Trinidad and Demerera were characterized by insecurity and personified by the high mobility of people and ideas across empires; it was a part of the Caribbean that, more than any other region, provided an example of the liminal space of contested empires. Because of the multiculturalism inherent in this part of the world, as well as the undeveloped protean nature of the region, this was a place of shifting borderland communities and transient ideas, where women in motion and free people of colour played a central role. In illuminating this little understood frontier region, largely unrepresented in the meta-narratives of the Americas, Kit Candlin seeks to complicate and add nuance to our understanding of the Atlantic world. 31 02 Looks at the contested and insecure region of the Southern Caribbean between 1795 and 1815 02 02 The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery. 04 02 Introduction: The Very Limits of Imagination: The Transient World of the Southern Caribbean What Became of the Fedon Rebellion The Queen of Demerara Paper Tigers and Crooked Dispositions The Planter and the Governor Poision, Paranoia and Slavery of the Verge of Empire The Torture of Louisa Calderon That Business of Rosetta Smith The Importunate Revolution on the Main Bibliography 08 02 'It is a very long time since I read such an interesting, original - and extremely well-written manuscript from a young scholar. This is a book of great originality, written with terrific verve and historical imagination - and on a topic which has oddly eluded many others working on the Caribbean.' - Professor James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York 13 02 KIT CANDLIN completed his PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2009 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and in 2010 Kit was awarded an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for four years. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including, The James Kentley Memorial Scholarship for History, The John Frazer Travelling Scholarship and Andrew Mellon Fellowship to the Virginia Historical Society. 19 02 Uses rare, new and unlooked at sources Complicates our understanding of the Caribbean world, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery Looks at a region that has been insubstantially covered by historical research: Caribbean colonies of Grenada, Trinidad and Demerara