Sergeant Pearman's Memoirs
Author : John Pearman
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Sergeant Pearman's Memoirs
Author : John Pearman
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Policing the Victorian Community
Author : CAROLYN STEEDMAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1317372581
Book Description
The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales). Over the next thirty years a class society came to be policed by a largely working-class police. This book, first published in 1984, traces the process by which men made themselves into policemen, translating ideas about work and servitude, about local government and local community, servitude and the ideologies of law and central government, into sets of personal beliefs. By tracing the evolution of a policed society through the agency of local police forces, the book illustrates the ways in which a society, at many levels and from many perspectives, understood itself to operate, and the ways in which ownership, servitude, obligation, and the reciprocality of social relations manifested themselves in different communities. This title will be of interest to students of criminology and history.
The Radical Soldier's Tale
Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1317266102
Book Description
First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about. Carolyn Steedman introduces the ‘Memoirs’ by placing the document in its textual context, as well as the context of history and politics, and shows how it directs fascinating light on popular political thought in the mid-Victorian years. In her introduction she looks closely at the kind of narratives people have access to in different social circumstances and the stories they tell themselves to explain who they are. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian history and politics.
The Redcoat and Religion
Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1136007423
Book Description
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period, and demonstrates that the British soldier was highly susceptible to religious influences long before the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny rendered the subject of wider public concern. In The Redcoat and Religion Snape argues that religion was of significant, even defining, importance to the British soldier and reveals the enduring strength and vitality of religion in contemporary British society, challenging the view that the popular religious culture of the era was wholly dependent upon the presence and activities of women. Students of British history, military history, and religion will all find this an insightful resource for their studies.
The Last Sunset
Author : Captain Amarinder Singh
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8174369112
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the Lahore Durbar, the glorious reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his exemplary organizational skills that led to forming of the formidable Sikh army and the fiercely fought Anglo Sikh wars. The Last Sunset: The Rise and Fall of the Lahore Durbar recreates history of the Sikh empire and its unforgettable ruler, Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Shukarchakia dynasty. An outstanding military commander, he created the Sikh Khalsa Army organized and armed in Western style, acknowledged as the best in undivided India in the nineteenth century. Ranjit Singh’s death in 1839 and the subsequent decline of the Lahore Durbar, gave British the opportunity to stake their claim in the region till now fiercely guarded by Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army. Captain Amarinder Singh chronicles in detail the two Anglo-Sikh wars of 1845 and 1848. The battles, high in casualties on both the sides led to the fall of Khalsa and the state was finally annexed with Maharaja Duleep Singh, the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh put under the protection of the Crown and deported to England.
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 113679087X
Book Description
This book examines military success of the British in South Asia during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Placing South Asian military history in global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers, and the British, explaining why they succeeded.
Real War Horses
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473847087
Book Description
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century of warfare. That is why it is of such value. It is also compelling reading because it describes, using the words of the cavalrymen of the time, the organization, routines, training and social life of the cavalry as well as the fear and exhilaration of cavalry actions. Perhaps the most memorable passages record the drama and excitement of cavalry charges and the brutal, confused, often lethal experience of close-quarter combat in a melee of men and horses. Few books give such a direct inside view of what it was like to serve in the British cavalry during the nineteenth century.
Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2951 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1317369769
Book Description
This set reissues ten books that explore the history of crime and punishment. The titles, which were originally published between 1970 and 1988, examine many different aspects of historical criminology over a span of over 400 years, with particular focus on the nineteenth-century. This set will be of particular interest to students of both history and criminology.
Orders and Medals
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medals
ISBN :
