The British Army in the West Indies: Society and the Military in the Revolutionary Age

Abstract: This social and political history depicts a military community being shaped and defined in an era of revolutionary change: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars at the end of the 18th century. Roger Buckley presents a detailed picture of the British West Indies army in the Caribbean theatre, especially the manner in which the garrison affected, and was itself affected by, the Caribbean social, political and economic landscape.