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Author |
: Michael Norman McConnell |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780803232334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0803232330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Army and Empire by : Michael Norman McConnell
The end of the Seven Years? War found Britain?s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between British, French, and Spanish America. There the soldiers found themselves serving as occupiers, police, and diplomats in a vast territory marked by extreme climatic variation?a world decidedly different from Britain or the settled American colonies. Going beyond the war experience, Army and Empire examines the lives and experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers of the West in British America. From the first appearance of the redcoats in the West until the outbreak of the American Revolution, Michael N. McConnell explores all aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers? diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, clothing, and the built environments within which they lived and worked. McConnell looks at the army on the frontier for what it was: a collection of small communities of men, women, and children faced with the challenges of surviving on the far western edge of empire.
Author |
: George Morton-Jack |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465094073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465094074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Army of Empire by : George Morton-Jack
Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.
Author |
: Brian McAllister Linn |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2000-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807863015 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807863017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Guardians of Empire by : Brian McAllister Linn
In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn provides a new perspective on the complex evolution of events in the Pacific. Exhaustively researched, Guardians of Empire traces the development of U.S. defense policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities, and military technology. Linn challenges earlier studies which argue that army officers either ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat and remained unprepared for war. He demonstrates instead that from 1907 onward military commanders in both Washington and the Pacific were vividly aware of the danger, that they developed a series of plans to avert it, and that they in fact identified--even if they could not solve--many of the problems that would become tragically apparent on 7 December 1941.
Author |
: Lawrence Keppie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2002-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134746033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134746032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the Roman Army by : Lawrence Keppie
In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army. Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of the Republic and the archaeological approach to the Empire by examining archaeological evidence from the earlier years. The arguments of The Making of the Roman Army are clearly illustrated with specially prepared maps and diagrams and photographs of Republican monuments and coins.
Author |
: Tarak Barkawi |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2017-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107169586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107169585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soldiers of Empire by : Tarak Barkawi
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Author |
: Graham Sumner |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040035910 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Army by : Graham Sumner
Drawings, reproductions of statuary, and color photographs of reconstructed apparel and fighting positions enhance the reference for collectors, military historians, war-gamers, military modelers, and others interested in the Roman imperial army. A chronology of wars from Augustus' campaign in Gaul in 27 BC to Aurelianus's various battles in the 270's AD is followed by chapters on the organization of the army, armor and helmets, military clothing, and weapons and equipment. Museums with relevant exhibits are also listed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Mark Hebblewhite |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2016-12-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317034308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317034309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395 by : Mark Hebblewhite
With The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 Mark Hebblewhite offers the first study solely dedicated to examining the nature of the relationship between the emperor and his army in the politically and militarily volatile later Roman Empire. Bringing together a wide range of available literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence he demonstrates that emperors of the period considered the army to be the key institution they had to mollify in order to retain power and consequently employed a range of strategies to keep the troops loyal to their cause. Key to these efforts were imperial attempts to project the emperor as a worthy general (imperator) and a generous provider of military pay and benefits. Also important were the honorific and symbolic gestures each emperor made to the army in order to convince them that they and the empire could only prosper under his rule.
Author |
: Gabriele Esposito |
Publisher |
: Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2018-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526730381 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526730383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armies of the Late Roman Empire, AD 284–476 by : Gabriele Esposito
An illustrated guide to the organization, structure, equipment, weapons, combat history, and tactics of the Late Roman military forces. This guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the definitive fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a turbulent period during which the Roman state and its armed forces changed. Gabriele Esposito challenges many stereotypes and misconceptions regarding the Late Roman Army; for example, he argues that the Roman military machine remained a reliable and efficient one until the very last decades of the Western Empire. The author describes the organization, structure, equipment, weapons, combat history and tactics of Late Roman military forces. The comitatenses (field armies), limitanei (frontier units), foederati (allied soldiers), bucellarii (mercenaries), scholae palatinae (mounted bodyguards), protectores (personal guards) and many other kinds of troops are covered. The book is lavishly illustrated in color, including the shield devices from the Notitia Dignitatum. The origins and causes for the final military fall of the Empire are discussed in detail, as well as the influence of the “barbarian” peoples on the Roman Army. Praise for Armies of the Late Roman Empire, AD 284–476 “An excellent introduction to the subject for the novice, and seasoned students of the subject may find it of use as well.” —The NYMAS Review “This beautifully illustrated book depicts the very different arms and armour of the late Roman Empire as Roman soldiers adapted to the challenges of the rising barbarian armies . . . Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench “Superbly well-illustrated . . . historians, re-enactors and war gamers will find invaluable to understanding and picturing the Roman forces.” —Hoplite Association
Author |
: Martijn Nicasie |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2023-01-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004525801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004525807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twilight of Empire by : Martijn Nicasie
Nicasie, Martijn Twilight of Empire. The Roman Army from the Reign of Diocletian until the Battle of Adrianople. 1998 This book discusses the development of the Roman army during the fourth century. The author argues that the Roman army of the fourth century was by no means inferior to its early Imperial counterpart, and in some ways even much superior. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book discusses the development of the Roman army in the period immediately preceding the reign of Diocletian, the massive reorganization of the army in the fourth century under Diocletian and Constantine, recruitment and barbariza tion, and the Grand Strategy of the Empire in the fourth century. The final chapter is devoted to an analysis of battlefield tactics and of two important fourth-century battles, the Battle of Strasbourg in 357 and the Battle of Adrianople in 378. DMAHA 19 (1998), 330 p. Cloth. - 66.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050634486
Author |
: Lawrence Keppie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2002-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134746026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134746024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the Roman Army by : Lawrence Keppie
In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army. Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of the Republic and the archaeological approach to the Empire by examining archaeological evidence from the earlier years. The arguments of The Making of the Roman Army are clearly illustrated with specially prepared maps and diagrams and photographs of Republican monuments and coins.