Author: Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Rough Recollections of Military Service and Society
Author: Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Rough Recollections of Military Service and Society
Author: Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw RamsayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385400430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Institutes of the Law of Nations
Author: James LorimerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Life as I have Found It
Author: General De AinsliePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385322707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Army and Navy Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The academy
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 Quarterly review
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: Letters from India
Author: Ross NelsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003826008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898), the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspondence was written over a two-year period: commencing with Susan’s positive response to her father’s request that she join him in Calcutta, following the death of her mother; and concluding with Susan’s arrival with her father at Southampton. Lady Susan was still only 17 when she arrived in India, and was therefore the youngest person to take up the role of vicereine of India. Her letters and journal represent the unique viewpoint of a highly intelligent, witty, articulate and unprejudiced young woman expressed from locations that range from Osborne on the Isle of Wight to Seringapatam in Mysore. The detail, maturity and inventive quality of her writing invites comparison with that of Emily Eden, Emily Metcalfe, Charlotte Canning and other prominent early Victorian women. Accompanied by extensive introductions and annotations by Ross Nelson, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Imperial History.