| Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850 Contributor(s): Ackroyd, Marcus (Author), Brockliss, Laurence (Author), Moss, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199267065 ISBN-13: 9780199267064 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - History | Military - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 616.980 |
| LCCN: 2006030801 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.52" W x 9.21" (1.70 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Providing a 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 their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, and wealth at death. |