THE HOPES AT WAR IN THE 18TH CENTURY

dc.creator	Ian Van der Waag
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:45Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:45Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/24-2-278
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9b371eaf0c404cdabc02e761137c5c4d
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8450
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/9b371eaf0c404cdabc02e761137c5c4d
dc.description	<p>The publication under review is a prosopographical study of those members of a Scottish family - the Hopes of Craig hall and the cadet branches of Hopetoun and Craigiehall – who served in the British armed forces during the eighteenth century. According to Lawrence Stone, collective biography or prosopography "is the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives". Although only professionalised after the First World War, prosopography has been employed by historians since ancient times but first rose to prominence during the middle of the eighteenth century. Prosopography, according to Stone (page 47), is constructed, by and large, from the following raw materials:…</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/278
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 24, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	Marie Melvin
dc.subject	Charles P. Rawcliffe
dc.subject	Flora C. Welch
dc.subject	Hopetoun Research Group Studies: Paper No 2
dc.subject	cadet branches of Hopetoun and Craigiehall
dc.subject	Scottish family
dc.subject	First World War
dc.subject	actors
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	THE HOPES AT WAR IN THE 18TH CENTURY
dc.type	Article