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Author : Paul Swanston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000501368
Author : Paul Swanston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : OCLC:48464001
Author : Jules Gabriel Janin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNW8YW
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023675185
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018949054
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024172745
Author : Scott Hughes Myerly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0674082494
In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.
Author : Catherine Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691163376
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Author : Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Studies in Labour History Lup
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620863
This is the first exploration of the British army to combine labour, political and military history. It analyses the political lives of nineteenth century rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working-class culture. It focuses on the significant radical and socialist movements, alongside influential working-class conservatism.
Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781382783
The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555030369
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112113989237
Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Military history
ISBN : UVA:X002275510
Author : John Burnett,David Vincent,David Mayall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117231139
