Manual of elementary military hygiene. 1912
Author : Great Britain. War Office
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : David French
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0191531561
The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers, private papers and personal reminiscences, and upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and collections, and other depositories, this book challenges the assumptions of both the exponents and detractors of the system. The author, David French, shows that there was not one, but several, regimental systems and he demonstrates that localised recruiting was usually a failure. Many regiments were never able to draw more than a small proportion of their recruits from their own districts. He shows that regimental loyalties were not a primordial force; regimental authorities had to create them and in the late nineteenth century they manufactured new traditions with gusto, whilst in both World Wars regimental postings quickly broke down and regiments had to take recruits from wherever they could find them. French also argues that the notion that the British army was bad at fighting big battles because the regimental system created a parochial military culture is facile. This is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the regimental system and to uncover the reality beneath them. It thus illuminates our understanding of the past while simultaneously throwing glaring new light on the still continuing debate over the place of the regimental system in the modern army today.
Author : Great Britain. War Office. Library
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Page : 1446 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Medicine
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Author : India
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1919
Category : India
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Author : India
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Military engineering
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Author : Great Britain. Army
Publisher :
Page : 1966 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Retired military personnel
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Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Howitzers
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Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317402537
Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked by the materiality of conflict and its aftermath. The volume positions the industrialized nature of twentieth-century war as a unique cultural phenomenon, in possession of a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of human behaviour, from total economic mobilization to the unbearable sadness of individual loss. Adopting a coherent and integrated hybrid approach to the complexities of modern conflict, the book considers issues of memory, identity, and emotion through wartime experiences of tangible sensations and bodily requirements. This comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection draws upon archaeology, anthropology, military and cultural history, art history, cultural geography, and museum and heritage studies in order to revitalize our understandings of the role of the senses in conflict.