The Handbook Of British Regiments Routledge Revivals

Author : Christopher Chant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134647247
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Handbook of British Regiments (Routledge Revivals) written by Christopher Chant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Chant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113464731X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of British Regiments (Routledge Revivals) written by Christopher Chant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elizabeth McMahon
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783085355
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination written by Elizabeth McMahon and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous regiments of the British army: their origin and services. With a sketch of the rise and progress of the military establishment of England, and brief memoirs of eminent British generals written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Sutcliffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Regiments of the British Army written by Victor Sutcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Trimen
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019018613
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Regiments of the British Army, Chronologically Arranged written by Richard Trimen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747804109
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering British Regimental Traditions written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the history of the British Army by using one of its most distinctive aspects... its regimental traditions.

Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of the Regiment written by Great Britain. Army. Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian S. Hallows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858912370
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Regiments and Corps of the British Army written by Ian S. Hallows and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Trimen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332893904
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book The Regiments of the British Army, Chronologically Arranged (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Trimen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.