Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 by Heather E. Streets-Salter

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

Heather E. Streets-Salter

288 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

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This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As "martial races" these men were believed to possess a biologica...

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