Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army, from the Conquest
Author: Francis GroseMilitary Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army
Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army
Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337655624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army
Author: Francis GroseMilitary Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time
Author: Francis GroseA Guide to the Sources of British Military History
Author: Robin HIghamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317390210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Designed to fill an overlooked gap, this book, originally published in 1972, provides a single unified introduction to bibliographical sources of British military history. Moreover it includes guidance in a number of fields in which no similar source is available at all, giving information on how to obtain acess to special collections and private archives, and links military history, especially during peacetime, with the development of science and technology.
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
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Author: Essaka JoshuaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108872034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The modern concept of disability did not exist in the Romantic period. This study addresses the anachronistic use of 'disability' in scholarship of the Romantic era, providing a disability studies theorized account that explores the relationship between ideas of function and aesthetics. Unpacking the politics of ability, the book reveals the centrality of capacity and weakness concepts to the egalitarian politics of the 1790s, and the importance of desert theory to debates about sentiment and the charitable relief of impaired soldiers. Clarifying the aesthetics of deformity as distinct from discussions of ability, Joshua uncovers a controversy over the use of deformity in picturesque aesthetics, offers accounts of deformity that anticipate recent disability studies theory, and discusses deformity and monstrosity as a blended category in Frankenstein. Setting aside the modern concept of disability, Joshua cogently argues for the historical and critical value of period-specific terms.
War in England 1642-1649
Author: Barbara DonaganPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649 focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of war was it to live through? Eschewing descriptions of specific battles or analyses of political and religious developments, Barbara Donagan examines the 'texture' of war, addressing questions such as: what did Englishmen and women believe about war and know about its practice before 1642? What were the conditions in which a soldier fought - for example, how efficient was his musket (not very), and how did he know where he was going (much depended on the reliability of scouts and spies)? What were the rules that were supposed to govern conduct in war, and how were they enforced (by a combination of professional peer pressure and severe but discretionary army discipline and courts martial)? What were the officers and men of the armies like, and how well did they fight? The book deals even-handedly with royalists and parliamentarians, examining how much they had in common, as well as discussing the points on which they differed. It looks at the intimacy of this often uncivil war, in which enemies fought at close quarters, spoke the same language and had often been acquainted before the war began, just as they had often known the civilians who suffered their presence. A final section on two sieges illustrates these themes in practice over extended periods, and also demonstrates the integration of military and civilian experience in a civil war. Drawing extensively on primary sources, Donagan's study illuminates the human cost of war and its effect on society, both in our own day as well as in the seventeenth century.
Author: James Newman