Officers and gentlemen? Class, values, and the British Army's Officer Corps, 1871-1901

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dc.contributor.authorYoumans, Gregory
dc.contributor.supervisorZimmerman, David
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T06:03:43Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-08-31
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the values and attitudes of the British Army’s officer corps during the period from 1871 to 1901, and how these values were linked to those of the British landed classes. Through studying the memoirs and other writings produced by the officers of this period, this thesis confirms that the link between these two systems was extremely close, and that the landed classes’ ideas of what constituted ‘gentlemanly’ behaviour were vitally important in shaping army officers’ conduct. This thesis argues that the acceptance of these values by the officer corps was not merely a product of their own social origins, but that officers subscribed to these values because they believed them to be particularly appropriate to military service. This attachment to gentlemanly values produced a deeply imbalanced set of competencies in the officer corps’ members, the effects of which remained present in the institutional culture of the army well beyond the end of this period.en_US
dc.description.embargo2021-08-28
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12084
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectBritish Armyen_US
dc.subjectSocial Classen_US
dc.subjectAristocracyen_US
dc.subjectSocial valuesen_US
dc.subjectGentryen_US
dc.subjectGreat Britainen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.subjectProfessionalismen_US
dc.subjectLate Victorianen_US
dc.subjectVictorianen_US
dc.subjectMilitaryen_US
dc.titleOfficers and gentlemen? Class, values, and the British Army's Officer Corps, 1871-1901en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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