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Lin, Patricia Yu Chava Esther.

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Extending her arms: Military families and the transformation of the British state, 1793-1815.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Extending her arms: Military families and the transformation of the British state, 1793-1815./
Author:	Lin, Patricia Yu Chava Esther.
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 0923.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-03A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9827015
ISBN:	0591793733

Extending her arms: Military families and the transformation of the British state, 1793-1815.
Lin, Patricia Yu Chava Esther.

Extending her arms: Military families and the transformation of the British state, 1793-1815. - 291 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 0923.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

This dissertation shows how at the end of the eighteenth century, the British central government established Britain's first national social welfare system to assist the families of the nearly one million common soldiers and seamen who fought in the British army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Britain's military leaders created this system primarily as a recruiting device to meet the Wars' unprecedented manpower demands. The system revolutionized the concept of eligibility for public relief by basing it not, as was the case with the local poor relief system, on personal need, but on the concept of male citizenship whereby women and children could receive assistance if they were related to a man who had served or was serving the nation by fighting in its armed forces.

ISBN: 0591793733Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Extending her arms: Military families and the transformation of the British state, 1793-1815.
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520 $a In designing the welfare system, military leaders introduced innovative ways of caring for the poor long before and in more dramatic and centralized ways than the poor law reforms of 1834 and after. Self-help schemes, such as programs enabling men to send their wages home from the front, and state schools were key components of the system. In implementing these benefits, the state constructed a bureaucracy which involved an unprecedented level of collaboration between central and local government and began systematically collecting and recording personal information about all who used the system. In the process, many people, especially women and children, interacted with the central government in unprecedented ways both as recipients of welfare and as objects of knowledge in state administrative forms and records.
520 $a By addressing the background and practice of this welfare system for military families, I challenge the primacy of industrialization as the source of social policy developments in pre-twentieth century Britain, I highlight war and military leaders as potential sources of social and political innovation and I call attention to the modern and national character of British state and society at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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