Author: Tobias Harper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257809X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.
From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes
Author: Tobias Harper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257809X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257809X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The American and English Railroad Cases
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Engineering
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
From Servant to Savant
Author: Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197511511
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Introduction -- Part I. Musical Privilege. Legal Privilège and Musical Production ; Social Privilège and Musician-Masons -- Part II. Property. Private Property : Music and Authorship ; Public Servants ; Cultural Heritage : Music as Work of Art ; National Industry : Music as a "Useful" Art and Science -- Postlude : A "Detractor" Breaks his "Silence" -- Conclusion : Privilege by Any Other Name.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197511511
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Introduction -- Part I. Musical Privilege. Legal Privilège and Musical Production ; Social Privilège and Musician-Masons -- Part II. Property. Private Property : Music and Authorship ; Public Servants ; Cultural Heritage : Music as Work of Art ; National Industry : Music as a "Useful" Art and Science -- Postlude : A "Detractor" Breaks his "Silence" -- Conclusion : Privilege by Any Other Name.
Notes on the American Decisions [1760-1869]
Author: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Atchley's Civil Engineer's and Contractor's Estimate and Price Book, for Home Or Foreign Service ... To which is Added, "The Law of Contracts, &c."
Author: William Davis Haskoll
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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The Engineer
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Building and Engineering News
Author:
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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