Author: John MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military biography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four Centuries
Author: John MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military biography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Wandering Army
Author: Huw J. DaviesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030026853X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe “Superb analysis.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization—both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw J. Davies traces the British Army’s accumulation of military knowledge across the following century. An essentially global force, British armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy from war zones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation—leading to the pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.
Notes and Queries
Author: Frederick The Great On The Art Of War
Author: Jay LuvaasPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786749776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him; and established Prussia as a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two centuries of European history. He was also a brilliant military thinker whose observations arose from extensive battlefield experience.This volume presents a balanced selection from Frederick's writings on strategy, tactics, and mobility; the problems of logistics and a two-front war; the combined use of infantry, cavalry, and artillery; the history of the Prussian army; the critical battles of the Seven Years' War; generalship as an art; and much more. A majority of this material is translated here for the first time in English and available nowhere else. The result is an invaluable glimpse into the inner thoughts of a military genius.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
Author: Walter E. HoughtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135795495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
`Simply a great work of reference. Future scholars will wonder how anybody managed without the Wellesley Index. It will quietly change the whole nature of Victorian studies.' Christopher Ricks, New Statesman `It is now impossible to think of Victorian literary and historical studies without the benefit of it ... this is a very remarkable achievement indeed ... the complete set will be a monument to the Houghtons foresight, pertinacity and skill.' TLS
Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion
Author: Jacob RisingerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691223114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion. Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization.
A Song of Heroes
Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
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Category : Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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An Atonement of East London
Author: Howard CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : East End (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters
Author: Lady Helena Saville Faucit MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas
Author: Donald MacintyrePublisher:
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Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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