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Book SynopsisBringing together the world’s leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives within a comparative context to expose the role of military education in maintaining empire.
Trade Review"[T]his important, timely, and authoritative volume brings the history of military education to bear on matters of contemporary and continuing relevance." -- Aimée Fox * History of Education *
This collection makes important contributions to on-going historiography by centring military education as a point of analysis rather than treating it as an aside and by placing it within transnational context. -- Mary Chaktiris * Historical Studies in Education *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Douglas E. Delaney and Robert C. Engen
1 Ubique: The Royal Engineers Establishment, 1815–69 / Claire Cookson-Hills
2 Fashioning Imperial Canadians: The Royal Military College, 1874–1900 / E. Jane Errington
3 “Doctrine, the Soul of Warfare”: Sir Julian Corbett and the Teaching of Strategy in the Royal Navy before 1914 / Andrew Lambert
4 Australian Military Education, 1901–18 / John Connor
5 South Africa and the Making of Military Officers, 1902–48 / Ian van der Waag
6 The Spirit of an Air Force: Learning about Air Power, 1919–49 / Randall Wakelam
7 Preparing for a Better War: The Admiralty’s Challenge of Educating Naval Officers, 1919–39 / Joseph Moretz
8 The British and Indian Army Staff Colleges in the Interwar Years / Mark Frost
9 Education in the Indian Army, 1920–46 / Alan Jeffreys
10 “Necessarily of an Experimental Character”: The Interwar Period and the Imperial Defence College / Andrew Stewart
11 From Imperial to Nationalist Canadians: The Impact of the Second World War on Canadian Army Staff Education / Howard G. Coombs
Concluding Remarks / Douglas E. Delaney and Meghan Fitzpatrick
Select Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
