Riflemen Form
A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859-1908
Published on 30. July 2007
386 pages
978-1-78383-832-5 (ISBN)
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Lt.-Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley commented that history would record the formation of the Volunteers Movement as one of the most remarkable events in the century. In this study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, the author Ian Beckett has drawn from a wide range of primary source material such as official, regimental, local and private repositories. He has been able to put into perspective the Movement within the structure of the Victorian and Edwardian social, political and military affairs from its formation in 1859 to its absorption in the Territorial Force in 1908.
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Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859-1908
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I THE ORIGINS OF THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT, 1845-1859
- (i) Crisis and Response
- (ii) The 'Third Panic' and the Government
- (iii) The 'Third Panic' and the Local Community
- (iv) Seeds of permanence
- CHAPTER II THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF THE VOLUNTEER FORCE, 1859-99
- (i) Participation and Leadership
- (ii) The Rural Volunteer
- (iii) The Urban Volunteer
- (iv) The Mounted Volunteer
- (v) Patterns of Change
- CHAPTER III THE VOLUNTEERS AND SOCIETY, 1859-1899
- (i) The Public and the Volunteers
- (ii) The Pattern of Recruitment
- (iii) Recruitment and Motivation
- (iv) Leisure and other Activities
- CHAPTER IV THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE STATE, 1859-1899
- (i) Early Rationalisation
- (ii) The Cardwell Reforms and After
- CHAPTER V THE VOLUNTEERS AND POLITICS, 1859-1899
- (i) Parties, Factions and Aid to the Civil Power
- (ii) The Volunteer Interest - The First Phase
- (iii) The Volunteer Interest - The Second Phase
- (iv) The Cordite Vote
- CHAPTER VI THE VOLUNTEERS AND NATIONAL DEFENCE, 1859-1899
- (i) Professionals and Amateurs - Mutual Failings
- (ii) The Role of the Amateur - The Professional View
- (iii) The Role of the Amateur - The Amateur View
- (iv) The Contribution of the Amateur
- CHAPTER VII THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902
- (i) Patriotism and Necessity
- (ii) Public Concession
- (iii) Private Hostility
- CHAPTER VIII THE VOLUNTEERS AND ARMY REFORM, 1902-1908
- (i) The Norfolk Commission
- (ii) The Fall of H.O. Arnold-Forster
- (iii) Towards an Hegelian Army
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I A VOLUNTEER ANTHOLOGY
- APPENDIX II THE AUXILIARY FORCES BRANCH AT THE WAR OFFICE, 1860-1908
- APPENDIX III THE EFFECTIVE VOLUNTEER INTEREST IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1862-1874
- APPENDIX IV THE EFFECTIVE VOLUNTEER INTEREST IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1886-1895
- APPENDIX V SOME ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEER PRESSURE GROUPS
- APPENDIX VI VOLUNTEER BIOGRAPHIES
- APPENDIX VII NOMINAL LIST OF RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS
- APPENDIX VIII NOMINAL LIST OF ARTILLERY VOLUNTEER CORPS
- APPENDIX IX NOMINAL LIST OF ENGINEER VOLUNTEER CORPS
- APPENDIX X NOMINAL LIST OF LIGHT HORSE AND MOUNTED RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- GENERAL INDEX
- INDEX OF UNITS
