Author: Philip A. HurtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Guards' Cemeteries, St. Etienne, Bayonne, with a Concise Narrative of the Campaign in S.W. France, Previous to and Including the Sortie from Bayonne, April 14th, 1814
Author: Philip A. HurtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2
Author: Janet BromleyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848847505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?
Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 1
Author: Janet BromleyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781594120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.
Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: 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
The Work of the Dead
Author: Thomas W. LaqueurPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691180938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
Bulletin
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Guards' Cemeteries, St. Etienne, Bayonne with a Concise Narrative of the Campaign in S.W. France Previous to and Including the Sortie from Bayonne, April 14th, 1814
Author: Hurt, Philip A.Catalogue 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