War: identities in conflict, edited with Tim Thornton, Themes in History, Sutton Publishing, 1998, ISBN: 0-7509-1684-2
CONTENTS
B. Taithe & T. Thornton
Identifying war: conflict and self-definition in Western Europe. 1-20
Part One: Nation Making Warfare?
R. Davies
News from the fleet: characterizing the Elizabethan army in the narratives of the action at Cadiz, 1596. 21-37
S. Murdoch
The House of Stuart and the Scottish professional soldier 1618-1640: a conflict of nationality and identities. 37-56
T. Thornton
'The enemy or stranger, that shall invade their countrey': identity and community in the English north'. 57-72
Part Two: Volunteering: individual self and community
P. Woodfine
'Unjustifiable and Illiberal': military patriotism and civilian values in the 1790s. 73-94
K. Watson
Bonfires, bells and bayonets: British popular memory and the Napoleonic wars. 95-124
I. Donald
The Spanish-American war and American National Identity. 125-140
B. Taithe
Reliving the Revolution: war and political identity during the Franco-Prussian war. 141-58.
Part Three: Micro-Identities/ Macro-War.
G. Urquhart
Negotiating for war: Highland identity under fire. 159-72
C.E.J. Herrick
The Broken Soldier, the bonesetter and the medical profession: manipulating identities during the first world war. 173-92
M.S. Seligmann
The First World War and the undermining of the German-Jewish Identity as seen through American Diplomatic Documents. 193-202
R. Higgins
Fighting for the Republic: The response of the Irish press to the Spanish civil war. 203-212.
Part Four: Wars: Narrative of the self.
N. Barr
The British Legion after the Great War: its identity and character. 213-34
D. Taylor
'A little man in a great war': Patrick MacGill and the London Irish Rifles. 235-50
K. Howard
Elfin Rustling, air and ashes: communication, identity and war in Ludwig Harig's Ordnung ist das Ganze Leben. 251-64.
B. Taithe & T. Thornton
Bibliographical essay 265-8.
