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Author : Lara Kriegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842228
Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.
Author : Robert Edgerton
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043815870
In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair, with officers and soldiers alike taking to the fray with phrases like “death or glory” on their tongues and in their hearts. Nothing stands out more starkly than the toughness of the soldiers who fought so savagely, seldom complained, and only rarely collapsed under war's terrible and relentless stresses. Acts of astonishing bravery, many of them by doctors, women, and children, were commonplace. But so was callousness and brutality. The war soon became an impersonal, long-range killing match that resembled, far in advance, the trench warfare of World War I. It became a showcase for bad generalship and bureaucratic bungling. Men, women, and children died of hunger, cold, and disease many times more often than they were killed by rifles or the most massive artillery barrages the world have ever seen. Death or Glory is not a mere battle chronology; rather, it is a narrative immersion into conditions during what became arguably the most tragically botched military campaign, from all sides, in modern European history—and the most immediate precedent to the American Civil War. Edgerton paints a vivid picture of the war, from the Charge of the Light Brigade and the heroics of Florence Nightingale to the British soldiers who, simply unable to take the misery, starvation, and cholera any longer, took their own lives. He describes how leaders failed their men again and again; how women and children became unseen heroes; how the universally despised Turks fought their own war; and, finally and perhaps most importantly, why so many fought so bravely in what seemed a futile cause. By comparing these experiences with those of Northern and Southern soldiers during the more well-documented American Civil War, Edgerton contributes a new perspective on how soldiers in the mid-19th century experienced war, death, and glory.
Author : Paul Crawford,Anna Greenwood,Richard Bates,Jonathan Memel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030465346
Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work. From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes. Later, she created Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. These efforts, inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses, led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Shedid most of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea, turning her various private homes into offices and ‘households of faith’. In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.
Author : Lara Kriegel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822390534
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107412641
The Crimean War (1854-6) was the first to be fought in the era of modern communications, and it had a profound influence on British literary culture, bringing about significant shifts in perceptions of heroism and national identity. In this book, Stefanie Markovits explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to an unpopular war: one in which home-front reaction was conditioned by an unprecedented barrage of information arriving from the front. This history had formal consequences. How does patriotic poetry translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? How does the shape of literary heroism adjust to a war that produced not only heroes but a heroine, Florence Nightingale? How does the predominant mode of journalism affect artistic representations of 'the real'? By looking at the journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art produced in response to the war, Stefanie Markovits demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this relatively short conflict.
Author : Sima Godfrey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487547783
The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches – precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity. Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.
Author : Myna Trustram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521262941
This book is a detailed study of the domestic background of life in the Victorian army. It describes the lives of women who lived on the edge of the regimental community as wives, daughters, prostitutes, lovers and workers. It examines the development of policy on marriage of men in the ranks and discusses the links between the military regulation of marriage and Victorian legislation on prostitution. The early history of the service family and the sources of welfare available to families - the poor law, philanthropy, and the regimental system itself - are examined in the light of attitudes to soldiers' marriages. Women of the Regiment reveals the hitherto unexplored role played by the military in shaping Victorian social policy, domestic ideology and attitudes to sexuality. Its originality lies in its feminist discussions of an institution notorious as a male stronghold; as such it makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the nature of masculinity and women's oppression.
Author : Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 0674985729
Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--
Author : William J. Bulman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842495
Explores the emergence of majority rule in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries.
Author : Kazuhiro Fujita
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781682334614
Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0281076456
This brief historical introduction to Florence Nightingale explores the social, political, and religious factors that formed the original context of her life and writings. What was her impact on the world at the time and what were the key ideas and values connected with her? What aspects of her legacy are likely to continue to influence the world in the future?
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Oxford Oral History
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190658847
This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement examines the movement's shape and strategy as well as the conditions that gave rise to it. Through personal stories of key activists, the politics of experience is sympathetically evaluated in the context of iconic moments of the movement. It urges today's activists to engage anew with feminist memory in shaping new political futures.
Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108596046
A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Emily Baughan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520343726
Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was "saving children to save the world," the vision of the world it sought to save was strictly delimited, characterized by international capitalism and colonial rule. Emily Baughan's groundbreaking analysis, across fifty years and eighteen countries, shows that Britain's desire to create an international order favorable to its imperial rule shaped international humanitarianism. In revealing that modern humanitarianism and its conception of childhood are products of the early twentieth-century imperial economy, Saving the Children argues that the contemporary aid sector must reckon with its past if it is to forge a new future.
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780195392890
This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.