Author: Army Museums Ogilby TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Index to British Military Costume Prints, 1500-1914
Author: Army Museums Ogilby TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
British Archives
Author: Janet FosterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349095656
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 891
Book Description
This guide contains over 1000 entries of centres holding archive and manuscript collections in the UK includes many newly-established and specialist archives and their details. This edition includes over 400 additional entries, new indexes and cross-references.
British Military Spectacle
Author: Scott Hughes MyerlyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674082496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Ernest Ibbetson, Military Artist and Adventure Story Illustrator
Author: Frank A. BarrettPublisher: York University Bookstore
ISBN: 1550144995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Victorian Studies
Author: Sharon W. PropasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317216482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.
A bibliography of British military history
Author: Anthony BrucePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111660214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
British Prints
Author: Ian MackenziePublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this new edition of British Prints is a comprehensive dictionary of British printmakers working between 1650 and 1950. It covers eighteenth century mezzotint portraits, nineteenth century sporting aquatints and topographical views, and original etchings and lithographs in the twentieth century. Since most prints in this period were either signed in the plate or individually signed in ink or pencil by the artist, it provides a convenient and accessible means to identify a printmaker, look up the concise biographical summary and ascertain the printmaker's range of work and relative stature, as well as to obtain some idea of the likely value of the works. British Prints reached the status of bible within the antiques trade in its successful first edition, and this new fully revised edition has been very quick to reprint due to the demand.
An Annotated Bibliography of Marines in the American Revolution
Author: Richard Simkin's Uniforms of the British Army
Author: W. Y. CarmanPublisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description