Bøger i Warfare, Society and Culture serien
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- The Office of Ordnance and the State
664,95 - 1.915,95 kr. The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.
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673,95 - 1.917,95 kr. Focusing on the impact of Continental religious warfare on the society, politics and culture of English, Scottish and Irish Protestantism, this study is concerned with the way in which British identity developed in the early Stuart period.
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673,95 - 1.925,95 kr. Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years' War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.
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702,95 - 1.920,95 kr. Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of their British employers.
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- The British State at War
732,95 - 2.019,95 kr. The military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the three mainland campaigns of 1715-6, 1719 and 1745-6 are examined, using research based on primary sources: memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers and State papers.
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667,95 - 2.016,95 kr. The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.
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1.465,95 - 1.913,95 kr. Based on extensive archival research, Langley's study examines the interaction between warfare and religion in Civil War-era Scotland. The study will be of value to scholars researching the Civil War and Reformation as well as religious history and warfare more generally.
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535,95 - 1.771,95 kr. Taking the Napoleonic wars as his starting point and culminating at the brink of World War I, Hodge presents a comparative history of military operations and the political factors that governed them. Hodge argues that the modern state treated war as a strategic use of force to achieve rationally calculated political goals.
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584,95 - 1.915,95 kr. During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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