Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston

Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston
Title Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston PDF eBook
Author Paul Swanston
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Pages 448
Release 1839
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Tales of my Landlady

Tales of my Landlady
Title Tales of my Landlady PDF eBook
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Pages 86
Release 1843
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The Cross Roads

The Cross Roads
Title The Cross Roads PDF eBook
Author Jules Gabriel Janin
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Pages 192
Release 1841
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The Age of Reason, etc

The Age of Reason, etc
Title The Age of Reason, etc PDF eBook
Author Thomas Paine
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Pages 264
Release 1839
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Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston

Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston
Title Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston PDF eBook
Author Paul Swanston
Publisher
Pages 434
Release 1840
Genre Peninsular War, 1807-1814
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British Military Spectacle

British Military Spectacle
Title British Military Spectacle PDF eBook
Author Scott Hughes Myerly
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 350
Release 1996
Genre History
ISBN 9780674082496

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In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.

Heart Beats

Heart Beats
Title Heart Beats PDF eBook
Author Catherine Robson
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 312
Release 2015-03-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0691163375

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Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.