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Author : John R. Western
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015019369035
A study in English politics and local government and how the militia was molded by those same politics. The study is taken after the Restoration and before the main conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Author : J. R. Western
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003816164
First published in 1965, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century directs light on English politics and government, through studying the militia, from the Restoration to the days of the younger Pritt. The militia occupied a significant place both in the quarrels between king and parliament in the later seventeenth century and in the struggle for power between the elder Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. Raised and officered by the county and parish authorities, its maintenance constantly posed the problem of how to harness the machinery of local government to national purposes. The gentry had to be induced to help and the militia, like other institutions national and local, was shaped by the fashion and extent to which they responded. The book will be of interest to students of history, political science, and literature.
Author : Matthew McCormack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198703648
Matthew McCormack re-examines the debates on the 18th-century militia, and argues that military reform was informed and driven by concerns about politics, nationalism, and gender, taking examples from areas of military life such as physical training, masculine honour, material culture, self-identity, and citizenship.
Author : Neal Garnham
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837244
This text shows how the militia played a larger role in the defence of 18th century Ireland than has hitherto been realised, and how it's reliability was therefore a key point for the government.
Author : H. C. B. Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317405085
This book, originally published in 1977 examines in detail the organisation, training, and personnel of the British Army during the eighteenth century, and explains how the government policies of containing the enemy and colonial conquest were achieved. It also illustrates how the Army survived the constant nervousness of Parliament in reducing its strength after each emergency had passed. There are specific chapters devoted to the strategies of Marlborough, Amherst and Howe and to tactics as displayed at the battles of Ramillies, Fontenoy, Camden and Guildford Court House.
Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472514899
The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:600074503
Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199253753
The middle of the 18th century was a period of continuous warfare as Britain, and therefore Ireland, was involved in conflict with Spain and France. This text explores the impact of these wars and the consequences for the economy, society, politics, religious divisions, and attitudes to empire.
Author : H. V. Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521576458
Drawing on a large volume of research, this 1998 book considers sustained warfare as a powerful agent of change which transformed a wide range of institutions, structures, and processes in Britain between 1688 and 1815, a period when Britain was at war for much of the time. Stressing the positive as well as the negative, and the long term as well as the short term, the effects of war are brought to bear upon questions of central importance in the study of eighteenth-century British history. How effectively did the emerging state cope with the financial and logistical demands of war? How severe were the economic and social strains imposed upon the population at large, and how did they respond to the call to arms? What effect did war have upon the industrialising economy? A balanced overview is presented of Britain as a nation at war during an important phase of her development as an imperial, industrial and military power.
Author : Larry H. Addington
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0253205514
" . . . a concise, highly readable survey of pre- 19th-century warfare." —Choice "A remarkable tour de force covering a vast span of time, different cultures, warfare by land and sea." —Gunther Rothenberg A history of war and warfare from ancient to early modern times, Larry Addington's new book completes his survey of the patterns of war in the Western world. It explains not only what happened in warfare but why war in a certain time and culture took on distinct and recognizable patterns.
Author : Sir Edward Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Europe
ISBN : PRNC:32101074204239
Author : Joyce Lee Malcolm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0674893077
This work illuminates the historical facts behind the current debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill and the NRA, including the original meaning and intentions behind the right to "bear arms". It traces its roots to the legacy of English law, leading directly to the Second Amendment
Author : G.W. Stephen Brodsky
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019572737
Brodsky contends that three factors--constitutional, commercial, and technological--in turn, have caused Britain to raise large citizen forces. Because Britain traditionally has been an unmilitary state which has not maintained large standing armies, this ethos of amateurism merged with the professionalism of the Regular Army. He argues that it is this unique influence of amateurism which historically has been central to the British profession of arms and vital to its spirit of service. A wide range of prose and poetry illustrates that spirit and the military cultural experience in which it evolved in Great Britain from the Restoration through World War II. In an overview of later developments, including the Falklands War, Brodsky enunciates the challenge facing the traditional ethos in the nuclear age. Analyzing the effect of the literary idiom, he questions the future direction of representative literature.
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NLI:3226953-40
Author : David McNeil
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133696
A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others.