Author: Charles James Napier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sind (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Compilation of the General Orders, &c., Issued in 1842-47, by Sir C.J. Napier, ... Major-General, Governor of Scinde, to the Army Under His Command
Author: Charles James Napier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sind (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sind (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Beatson's Mutiny
Author: Richard Stevenson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Disciples of Light
Author: Graham Smith
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892361581
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Disciples of Light contains almost two hundred of the earliest known English and Scottish photographs, most of which have never been published. The volume includes all the significant photographs in the album, compiled by Sir David Brewster, an important early patron of photography. Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of negative-positive paper photography, are included, as well as works by other photographers who improved upon Talbot's invention. The text discusses the context in which the album was compiled, the personalities of the photographers, and the groups of specific images that it contains. Numerous comparative illustrations are included, as well as a checklist of all photographic images, a bibliography, and an index of all proper names and place names.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892361581
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Disciples of Light contains almost two hundred of the earliest known English and Scottish photographs, most of which have never been published. The volume includes all the significant photographs in the album, compiled by Sir David Brewster, an important early patron of photography. Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of negative-positive paper photography, are included, as well as works by other photographers who improved upon Talbot's invention. The text discusses the context in which the album was compiled, the personalities of the photographers, and the groups of specific images that it contains. Numerous comparative illustrations are included, as well as a checklist of all photographic images, a bibliography, and an index of all proper names and place names.
Soldiers as Workers
Author: Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.