The Royal Hospital Chelsea

The Royal Hospital Chelsea
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Publisher : Third Millennium Information Ltd
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105114346534
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Royal Hospital Chelsea by : Dan Cruickshank

A portrait of the famous London institution, The Royal Hospital Chelsea.

The Spaces of the Hospital

The Spaces of the Hospital
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781134343607
ISBN-13 : 1134343604
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spaces of the Hospital by : Dana Arnold

The Spaces of the Hospital explores the role and significance of hospitals as agents of change in London c1680-1820.

Veteran Poetics

Veteran Poetics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781108573665
ISBN-13 : 1108573665
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Veteran Poetics by : Kate McLoughlin

In this first full-length study of the war veteran in literature, Kate McLoughlin draws new critical attention to a figure central to national life. Offering fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical works, she shows how authors from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore questions that are simultaneously personal, political, and philosophical: What does a community owe to those who serve it? What can be recovered from the past? Do people stay the same over time? Are there right times of life at which to do certain things? Is there value in experience? How can wisdom be shared? Veteran Poetics features veterans who travel in time, cause havoc with their reappearances, solve murders, refuse to stop talking about the wars they have been in, and refuse to say a word about them. Through this last trait, they also prompt consideration of possible critical responses to silence.

The British Army, 1783–1815

The British Army, 1783–1815
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9781526738028
ISBN-13 : 1526738023
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The British Army, 1783–1815 by : Kevin Linch

The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this carefully considered new study by Kevin Linch is of such value. He brings together fresh perspectives on the army in one of its most tumultuous – and famous – eras, exploring the global range of its deployment, the varieties of soldiering it had to undertake, its close ties to the political and social situation of the time, and its complex relationship with British society and culture. In the face of huge demands on its manpower and direct military threats to the British Isles and territories across the globe, the army had to adapt. As Kevin Linch demonstrates, some changes were significant while others were, in the end, minor or temporary. In the process he challenges the ‘Road to Waterloo’ narrative of the army’s steady progress from the nadir of the 1780s and early 1790s, to its strong performances throughout the Peninsular War and its triumph at the Battle of Waterloo. His reassessment shows an army that was just good enough to cope with the demanding campaigns it undertook.