The Handbook Of British Regiments Routledge Revivals
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The Handbook of British Regiments Routledge Revivals
Author | : Christopher Chant |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134647248 |
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Since the creation of the standing army in 1661, when each regiment was known by the name of its current colonel, there have been many reforms and rationalizations of the British army. From 31 cavalry regiments and 113 infantry regiments in 1881, at the time of this title’s first publication in 1988, the army had reduced to just 16 regiments of armour and 39 regiments of infantry through processes of absorption and amalgamation. The Handbook of British Regiments provides insight into the lineage and history of the approximately 85 regiments and corps which formed the British army towards the end of the 1980s. Comprehensive in coverage, each has a separate entry giving factual details in a layout standardized for easy comparison, including current title, colonel-in-chief, uniform and history, amongst others. A key title amongst Routledge reference reissues, this handbook provides an accessible guide to specialists as well as lay enthusiasts, and illustrates a sense of the continuity and inherited tradition of each regiment and corps.
Islands Identity and the Literary Imagination
Author | : Elizabeth McMahon |
Publsiher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-07-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781783085354 |
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Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.
The Regiments of the British Army Chronologically Arranged Classic Reprint
Author | : Richard Trimen |
Publsiher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0656632895 |
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Excerpt from The Regiments of the British Army, Chronologically Arranged The lst Troop of Life probably Neer Landen 1693. Guards of Horse. From Flanders 1692 - 1697. 1685 - 1788 1660. Peninsula 1812 - 1814. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
British Regiments 1914 18
Author | : E. A. James |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2000-02 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1897632819 |
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The Cumulative Book Index
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2166 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105117840939 |
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The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author | : Ronald Carter,John McRae |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 0415243173 |
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This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1288 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : PSU:000030000865 |
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Books in Print
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2132 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105005605253 |
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