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Army of Empire

Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094074
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Army of Empire written by George Morton-Jack and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Soldiers of Empire

Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169585
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 3

Author : Bruno Mugnai
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
ISBN 13 : 9781913118846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 3 written by Bruno Mugnai and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization, composition and history of the army of the Sublime Porte in the age of the maximum expansion of the Empire.

Guardians of Empire

Author : Brian McAllister Linn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863017
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of Empire written by Brian McAllister Linn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars

Author : Mark Frost
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755862
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars written by Mark Frost and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized. Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars is a transnational look at how the empire did not always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis, and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute both wars. Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou, Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der Waag

Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens

Author : Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780470655825
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens written by Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - which explore the social, cultural, and military dimensions of World War I. This second edition includes added material to reflect the very latest historical thinking. Combines documents and themes that have proven successful in the first edition with new sources and topics that are currently at the forefront of historical debate and research Now features 59 new documents which illustrate the imperial dimensions of the conflict and broaden the coverage of 'war culture' and developments in Eastern Europe Documents have been included which pay particular attention to the experiences and perspectives of ordinary people, whose voices are often underrepresented in broad accounts The bibliography has been expanded and completely updated, complemented by a new series of maps and illustrations

The World's War

Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781858969
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The World's War written by David Olusoga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.

Lost Soldiers

Author : George Armstrong Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262110143
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Lost Soldiers written by George Armstrong Kelly and published by Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transylvanian Armies 1541-1613

Author : Florin Nicolae Ardelean
Publisher : Retinue to Regiment
ISBN 13 : 9781914059698
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Transylvanian Armies 1541-1613 by : Florin Nicolae Ardelean

Download or read book Transylvanian Armies 1541-1613 written by Florin Nicolae Ardelean and published by Retinue to Regiment. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1541 and 1613, Transylvanian armies underwent a process of transition and adaptation that combined medieval traditions and early modern military innovations.

Army and Empire

Author : Michael Norman McConnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803232330
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Army and Empire written by Michael Norman McConnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

India, Empire, and First World War Culture

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108631932
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book India, Empire, and First World War Culture written by Santanu Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914–1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual sources - objects, images, rumours, streetpamphlets, letters, diaries, sound-recordings, folksongs, testimonies, poetry, essays, and fiction - to produce the first cultural and literary history, moving from recruitment tactics in villages through sepoy traces and feelings in battlefields, hospitals, and POW camps to post-war reflections on Europe and empire. Combining archival excavation in different countries across several continents with investigative readings of Gandhi, Kipling, Iqbal, Naidu, Nazrul, Tagore, and Anand, this imaginative study opens up the worlds of sepoys and labourers, men and women, nationalists, artists, and intellectuals, trying to make sense of home and the world in times of war.

The British Empire and the First World War

Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317374649
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The British Empire and the First World War written by Ashley Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War, supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources, from foodstuffs to minerals, mules, and munitions. In turn, many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena, such as inflation, food shortages, combat, and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience, and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations, aiding the British imperial economy, or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire, the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395

Author : Mark Hebblewhite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317034309
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395 written by Mark Hebblewhite and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Policing the Roman Empire

Author : Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199737843
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Policing the Roman Empire written by Christopher J. Fuhrmann and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and ancient narratives this book provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices.

The Indian Empire At War

Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1408707721
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Empire At War written by George Morton-Jack and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo 1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and the deserts of the Islamic world, they saved the Allies from defeat in 1914 and were vital to global victory in 1918. Using previously unpublished veteran interviews, this is their story, told as never before.

Empires in World War I

Author : Richard S. Fogarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735853
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Empires in World War I written by Richard S. Fogarty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war. Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship, and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle between competing empires. Based on primary research, this book opens up new debates on the effects of the Great War in colonial arenas. The book assesses the effects of the war on Native Americans in the United States for example, as well as on the relationship between India and Pakistan, the British justice system in Palestine and the 'imperial scramble' in the Asia-Pacific region. Empires in World War I will be essential reading for students and scholars of the twentieth century.

The Battle of Adwa

Author : Raymond Jonas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062795
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Adwa written by Raymond Jonas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.