Victorians At War

Informationen zum Autor Ian Beckett is Professor of History at the University of Northampton and Chairman of the Army Records Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has taught in both in Britain and the United States. His publications include Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 (2004) and The Great War, 1914-1918 (2001). Klappentext The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars and policing wherever British interests demanded it, whether in Canada, the Crimea, Afghanistan or the Sudan. Very small by continental standards, the Victorian army combined a strong sense of tradition with growing professionalism. The variety of tasks it had to undertake gave its officers and men an extraordinary range of challenges and experiences: putting down the Indian Mutiny, fighting in the jungles of West Africa, facing a Zulu impi and Boer sharpshooters, or garrisoning the many outposts of the empire. In The Victorians at War Ian Beckett looks at the men and their leaders from a variety of angles, using particular incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Reputations 1 An English Confederacy 2 Cleansing the East with Steel 3 The Hand on the Throttle 4 The Devil's Pass 5 The Race for the Peerage 6 Paths of Duty 7 Doing a Billy Hicks 8 The Excitement with Railway Carriages 9 War, Truth and History Part Two: Generals and Politicians 10 Command in South Africa 11 Islands in the Sun 12 Cavagnari's Coup de Main 13 Chelmsford's Major-Generals 14 Stanhope's Storehouses 15 One and a Half Battalions 16 The Improbable Probability Part Three: Ways of War 17 The First Modern War? 18 War, Technology and Change 19 'Troopin' 20 A Frenchman's Horse 21 A Question of Totality 22 No End of a Lesson Notes Bibliographical Note Index

Product details

• Authors: Ian Beckett, Ian F. Beckett, Ian F. W. Beckett
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2006
• EAN: 9781852855109
• ISBN: 978-1-85285-510-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Militärgeschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), History - Military / War, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Battles & campaigns, Battles and campaigns