Author: George Carter StentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Scraps from my sabretache, personal adventures
Author: George Carter StentCatalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.)
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
英華成語合璧字集
Author: Donald MacGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese
Author: Donald MacGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Scraps
Author: Michel LeirisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300212380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Michel Leiris (1901-1990) was a profoundly influential and versatile French intellectual. His four-volume autobiographical essay, The Rules of the Game, serves as a primary document of artistic life in the twentieth century. Lydia Davis has received numerous awards as a translator of works from the French and as an author. She lives in upstate NY." -- publisher's description.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Cavalry Journal
Author: 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.
The Ancient Hungarians
Author: István FodorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description