Popular imperialism and the military 1850-1950
Between 1800 and 1900 popular perceptions of the military underwent a significant transformation. The reputation of the 'rapacious and licentious soldiery' was replaced by a widerspread enthusiasm for the soldier as patriot and hero, as personified in Kipling's 'Tommy Atkins'...
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01 Mar 2017
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : popular imperialism and the military / John M. MacKenzie
- Delusive seduction : pride, pomp, circumstance and military music / Robert Giddings
- 'We carved our way to glory' : the British soldier in music hall song and sketch, c. 1880-1914 / Dave Russell
- Popular imperialism and the image of the army in juvenile literature / Jeffrey Richards
- Heroic myths of empire / John M. MacKenzie
- War correspondents and colonial war, c. 1870-1900 / Roger T. Stearn
- Officer material : representations of leadership in late nineteenth-century British battle painting / Paul Usherwood
- The world on fire ... : pyrodramas at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, c. 1850-1950 / David Mayer
- The Hendon Air Pageant, 1920-37 / David Enrico Omissi
- Postscript / John M. MacKenzie