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Book Synopsis The Victorian soldier in Africa by : Edward Spiers
Download or read book The Victorian soldier in Africa written by Edward Spiers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874–1902 – the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion – and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilises an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers and other ranks, to allow soldiers to speak for themselves about their experience of colonial warfare. The sources demonstrate the adaptability of the British army in fighting in different climates, over demanding terrain and against a diverse array of enemies. They also uncover soldiers’ responses to army reforms of the era as well as the response to the introduction of new technologies of war. Moreover, the book provides commentary on soldiers’ views of commanding officers and politicians alongside assessment of war correspondents, colonial auxiliaries and African natives in their roles as bearers, allies and enemies. This book reveals new insights on imperial and racial attitudes within the army, on relations between soldiers and the media and the production of information and knowledge from frontline to homefront. It will make fascinating reading for students, academics and enthusiasts in imperial history, Victorian studies, military history and colonial warfare.
Book Synopsis Marching Over Africa by : George Antwerp Morris
Download or read book Marching Over Africa written by George Antwerp Morris and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marching Over Africa by : Frank Emery
Download or read book Marching Over Africa written by Frank Emery and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travellers in Africa by : Timothy Youngs
Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Timothy Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
Download or read book Khartoum written by Michael Asher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result was a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government. Twelve years later it was the brilliant Herbert Kitchener who struck back. Achieving the impossible he built a railway across the desert to transport his troops to the final devastating confrontation at Omdurman in 1898. Desert explorer and author Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale in vivid detail. Having covered every inch of the ground and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence questioning several accepted aspects of the story. The result is an account that sheds new light on the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.
Book Synopsis The Lake Regions of Central Africa by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book The Lake Regions of Central Africa written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lake Regions of Central Africa, a Picture of Exploration by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book The Lake Regions of Central Africa, a Picture of Exploration written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Practice of Medicine in the Tropics by : William Byam
Download or read book The Practice of Medicine in the Tropics written by William Byam and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Algeria: the Topography and History ... of French Africa by : John Reynell Morell
Download or read book Algeria: the Topography and History ... of French Africa written by John Reynell Morell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond the Reach of Empire by : Mike Snook
Download or read book Beyond the Reach of Empire written by Mike Snook and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to explain how and why the mission backfired, and then homes in on Sir Garnet Wolseley's planning and execution of the long-delayed Gordon Relief Expedition which arrived, according to popular myth, only two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed. Colonel Mike Snook's narrative is characterized by scrupulous attention to detail, an instinctive grasp of the period, and an intimate understanding of its setting. The author argues compellingly that the Khartoum campaign was mismanaged from the outset. The outcome is the exoneration of Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, the man cast in the role of scapegoat, and an indictment of Wolseley's generalship over the course of the last and most deeply flawed campaign of his career. Full review available at http://www.warhistoryonline.com/reviews/beyond-reach-empire-wolseleys-failed-campaign-save-gordon-khartoum-review-mark-barnes.html (please copy and paste into your browser) As featured in Wye Local Magazine.
Book Synopsis Our Young Folks in Africa by : James D. McCabe
Download or read book Our Young Folks in Africa written by James D. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7 by : Peter J Kitson
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Book Synopsis Our Young Folks in Africa. The Adventures of a Party of Young Americans in Algeria and in South Central Africa by : James Dabney McCabe
Download or read book Our Young Folks in Africa. The Adventures of a Party of Young Americans in Algeria and in South Central Africa written by James Dabney McCabe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Book Synopsis United States naval medical bulletin. v. 5, 1911 by :
Download or read book United States naval medical bulletin. v. 5, 1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Saints Go Marching in by : R. Fulton Holtzclaw
Download or read book The Saints Go Marching in written by R. Fulton Holtzclaw and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Merry-go-round written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of Rorke's Drift by : John Laband
Download or read book The Fall of Rorke's Drift written by John Laband and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Harry Turtledove, an alternate history novel in which Zulu forces triumph over the British at Rorke’s Drift in 1879 and invade Natal. January 1879. The British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom are at war. Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, had believed a similar scheme would work in South Africa. But such plans are rejected by Boer leaders. Lord Chelmsford leads a British military expeditionary force to enter the Zulu Kingdom uninvited. A bloody battle ensues on 22 January 1879 at Isandlwana. The Zulus are the unexpected victors. After that brutal defeat, the British Army are at Rorke’s Drift on the Buffalo River in Natal Province, South Africa. A few hundred British and colonial troops, led by Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, face the might of the Zulu army of thousands led by Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande (CORR). Against the odds, the British are victorious, and this defeat marks the end of the Zulu nation’s dominance of the region. The Defence of Rorke’s Drift would go down in history as an iconic British Empire Battle and inspired Victorian Britain. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to military personnel. But what if the Zulus had defeated the British at Rorke’s Drift and invaded Natal? . . . In the first ever alternate history of the Anglo-Zulu War, historian John Laband asks that question. With his vast knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War, he turns history on its head and offers a tantalizing glimpse of a very different outcome, weaving a compelling, never-before told story of what could have been.
