A Cultural Construction: Everyday Life In The Thousand Days' War

This book presents the daily life of the foot soldiers in the fields and battle camps of the Thousand Days' War, based on their social practices and ritualisation, which allowed the construction of customs, norms, roles and languages to be established. In order to do this, we worked firstly on the panorama of the war; secondly, the soldier's life in the campaign from military discipline through practices such as recruitment, punishments, desertion, military instruction and criminal acts, as well as supplies related to food and equipment, and also the sanitary conditions associated with the treatment of corpses and their implications for the living conditions of soldiers, the treatment of illnesses and the wounded. In the Thousand Days' War, a reconfiguration of soldiers' everyday life was established "spontaneously" on the basis of military aspects, where this reconfiguration made it possible to explain from another historical perspective the phenomena of social mobility, militarisation of society and new modes of sociability on a political and social level.