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Thompson, Matthew. "Mobilizing Great War Literature: Rereading the English Canon through Mulk Raj Anand's Across the Black Waters". Journal of Modern Literature 47, n. 1 (settembre 2023): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jml.00002.

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Abstract: While Great War scholars have recently recovered colonial texts, they seldom use those texts to reassess the English Great War canon. Mulk Raj Anand's depiction of Indian experience in Across the Black Waters highlights the imperial dimensions of English texts from the Great War. The novel depicts Indian soldiers first as travelers through Europe before narrating their experiences of displacement in the horrors of the trenches. This shift calls attention to the English canon's depictions of soldiers' mobility, which similarly shift from travel in initial military mobilization to displacement in the violence of warfare. Across the Black Waters rewrites this characteristic shift to reveal its imperial significance, ultimately transforming the English Great War canon's typical disillusionment with Britain into a critique of empire. Anand's novel invites us to recenter the imperial position in Great War literature: all English narratives are narratives of empire, and Britain at war is always imperial.
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Koven, Seth. "Remembering and Dismemberment: Crippled Children, Wounded Soldiers, and the Great War in Great Britain". American Historical Review 99, n. 4 (ottobre 1994): 1167. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2168773.

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Riall, Lucy. "The Shallow End of History? The Substance and Future of Political Biography". Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40, n. 3 (gennaio 2010): 375–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.375.

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The “Great Man” tradition of political life-writing in Britain originated in the Dictionary of National Biography (which commenced publication in 1882) and continues to this day in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The commercial popularity of the genre has persisted despite the challenges of post-structuralism and the rise of cultural and gender history. Contemporary political biographers who wish to incorporate new methodologies in their work, however, could approach the lives of Great Men through a study of how they acquired their reputations, thereby helping to explicate not only the importance attached to political heroes in history but also the creation of political biography itself. One case in point is my biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which analyzes the construction of, and political strategy behind, the remarkable fame and popularity of this revolutionary leader.
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Guzy-Pasiak, Jolanta. "Polish musical life in Great Britain during the Second World War". Muzyka 64, n. 1 (1 aprile 2019): 144–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.36744/m.249.

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The present article is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive – as much as the available sources allow – presentation of Polish music in Great Britain during the war, without any claims to completeness. The main institution attracting Poles in London was, practically from the beginning of the war, Polish Hearth, founded by Polish artists, scholars and writers. The Polish Musicians of London association with Tadeusz Jarecki organised classical music concerts and published contemporary works by Polish composers. The organisation was instrumental in the founding of the London Polish String Quartet. The BBC Radio played a huge role in the popularisation of the Polish repertoire and Polish artists, broadcasting complete performances. What became an extremely attractive form of promoting Polish art were the performances of the Anglo-Polish Ballet, founded by Czesław Konarski and Alicja Halama in 1940. The post-war reality meant that most of the scores published at the time were arrangements of soldiers’, historical, folk and popular songs characterised by simple musical means suited to the capabilities of army bands, but conveying the spirit accompanying the soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces during the Second World War. Polish Army Choir established, as the first among such ensembles, on Jerzy Kołaczkowski’s initiative.The author hopes to prompt further studies into the history of migrations of artists and work on monographs on the various composers and performers. Undoubtedly, there is a need to bring this part of our musical culture to light, especially given the fact that interest in Polish music abroad has been growing in recent years.
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Miles, William R. "Irish Soldiers, Pensions and Imperial Migration during the Early Nineteenth Century". Britain and the World 6, n. 2 (settembre 2013): 243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2013.0098.

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During the Napoleonic Wars the British government implemented a pension scheme for discharged soldiers and after 1816 extended benefits to veterans who chose to remain in various colonies throughout the empire. The Chelsea Hospital kept colonial pension applicant information (most of whom were born in Great Britain and Ireland) within specific admission books, now housed in the UK National Archive. The first admission book covers the years 1817 to 1826 and in addition to detailing the service of individual soldiers, points to a particular method of imperial migration where some soldiers appeared to have employed the army to escape socio-economic conditions at home permanently while continuing their association with the British army and state once abroad. Four case-studies involving Irish soldiers are highlighted in order to demonstrate this point. The Irish soldiers are noteworthy because they are over-represented among those veterans who opted to remain in the colonies.
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Appeltová, Michaela. "Women’s Agency, Catholic Morality, and the Irish State". Radical History Review 2022, n. 143 (1 maggio 2022): 212–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9566244.

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Abstract The text reviews four new books in Irish women’s history and the history of sexuality: Mary McAuliffe’s biography of the revolutionary Margaret Skinnider; Jennifer Redmond’s Moving Histories, exploring the discourses about Irish women migrants to Great Britain in the first few decades of the Irish state, and their everyday lives in Britain; Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart’s The Irish Abortion Journey, which documents the repressive discourses and policies surrounding abortion in twentieth-century Ireland and relates stories of traveling to Great Britain to obtain it; and finally, Sonja Tiernan’s book examining the ultimately successful political and legal campaign for marriage equality in Ireland. These highly readable, well-researched books place gender and sexuality at the center of Irish history; provide insight into the contradictory political, religious, and medical discourses about Irish women, gays, and lesbians; and document the lives of women both in and out of Ireland.
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Valdés, Juan Núñez. "WOMEN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF PHARMACY IN GREAT BRITAIN". International Journal Of Multidisciplinary Research And Studies 04, n. 12 (1 ottobre 2018): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.33826/ijmras/v04i12.1.1.

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This paper deals with the beginnings and historical evolution of Pharmacy studies in Great Britain and on the role played by the first women who practiced the profession there, The circumstances of that time, which made very difficult for a woman to work in that area, the biography of the first English woman licensed in Pharmacy, Fanny Deacon, and the biographies of the women who followed her as graduates in Pharmacy in Great Britain are commented, detailing not only their personal data but also the impact they had on the evolution and development of Pharmacy studies in their country. These women were Alice Vickery, Isabella Skinner Clarke, Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan, Rose Coombes Minshull and Agnes Thompson Borrowman.The main objective of the paper is to reveal the figures of these first women in Pharmacy in Great Britain to society, To do this, the methodology used has been the usual in researches of this type: search of data on these women in bibliographical and computer sources, as well as in historic archives. As the main results, the biographies of these pioneers pharmacist women mentioned above have been elaborated
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Moore, James Ross. "Cole Porter in Britain". New Theatre Quarterly 8, n. 30 (maggio 1992): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006564.

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The place of Cole Porter – the centenary of whose birth fell last June – within the tradition of the American musical has been well documented and fully discussed. Usually, however, this is at the expense of his earliest work, first as an exponent of Gilbertian pastiche, later as a dilettante ex-legionnaire in France – and then, as he grew aware of his own potential as a professional, in his work for the London theatre in the 1920s and early 1930s. Much of this was for revues mounted by the legendary impresario C. B. Cochran, though in 1933 the production of Nymph Errant proved to be his first and last original, full scale book musical for Britain, shortly before Porter's decision to move his home as well as his ambitions to Broadway. James Moore is a Cambridge-based writer, whose current work in progress includes a book on the British–American musical theatre and a full-length biography of Cochran's great rival, André Chariot – with whom Cole Porter finally collaborated in 1934, contributing ‘Miss Otis Regrets’ to the topical revue Hi Diddle Diddle.
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Anderson, Julie. "Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War". Social History of Medicine 18, n. 3 (1 dicembre 2005): 517–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hki069.

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Uzelac, Gordana. "Legitimacy of Death: National Appropriation of the Fallen". Nationalities Papers 47, n. 4 (22 aprile 2019): 647–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.3.

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AbstractMany influential theorists of nationalism see war as a social conflict that to a great extent homogenizes and unifies the nation. Nowhere is that unity more clearly expressed than in war memorials and cemeteries. This article considers the examples of Britain and the USA during the aftermath of World War I in order to examine how the state legitimized its ownership of the bodies of its dead soldiers. It argues first that in an internal dispute, when all sides share a normative ideology, nationalism cannot offer an effective basis for legitimacy. Second, it shows that during the aftermath of World War I, the bodies of dead soldiers were not symbols. This article concludes that in order to transform a dead body into a symbol, the body first has to be “de-individualized.”
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Tesi sul tema "Soldiers – Great Britain – Biography"

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Danley, Mark H. "Combat motivation in the eighteenth-century British army". Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-040334/.

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Vaughan, Jacqueline D. "Secretaries, statesmen and spies : the clerks of the Tudor Privy Council, c. 1540-c.1603 /". Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/440.

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Nelson, Ivan Francis. "The Irish militia, 1793-1802 : Ireland's forgotten army /". Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0801/2007297981.html.

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Whiteley, Joanna. "Lives and limbs : re-membering Robert Jones : a biography". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1986.

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This is a biography of Robert Jones, 1857-1933. He was a surgeon, and is credited with bringing orthopaedics from its quack past into its scientific present. This work explores Jones’ life and times, and examines whether he is entitled to the epithet ‘father of orthopaedics’. It looks at the history of bonesetting, the influences on Jones’ development and medical training, and some key moments in his career – notably his involvement in the building of the Manchester Ship Canal, the planning of Heswall Children’s Hospital, and the Great War. It argues that although there are other medical men who could have been credited with fathering orthopaedics, he is indeed the father – at least of orthopaedics in Britain, if not internationally. This version of Jones’ life begins with something of his biographer’s journey, before it explores what and who influenced Jones, and in turn what his legacy has been to the medical profession. The accompanying Critical Commentary explores whether or not it is possible to offer a definition of biography as a genre in the light of its history and purpose. It examines critical views, considers the mythology that grows up around historical figures, and also explains the rationale for the structure chosen for organising the material presented in this new biography of Robert Jones, Live and Limbs: Re-membering Robert Jones.
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Li, Boting, e 李博婷. "Leonard Woolf: towards a literarybiography". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45697735.

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Karginoff, Simon P. "The parliamentary career of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1829-1833". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1995. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1185.

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The thesis seeks to combine an historiographical reappraisal of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1780-1835, with an account of his political thought and actions during his parliamentary career, 1829-1833. Sadler was an Ultra-Tory, although he has also been called a Radical Tory. Central to Ultra-Tory philosophy was the defence of the Revolution Settlement, or Protestant Constitution. This thesis opens with an explanation as to why Sadler was chosen as a research subject. Section one gives a general background to Sadler. The thesis begins with a brief biographical sketch followed by a detailed historiographical assessment. Sadler’s basic philosophy is outlined and his opposition to Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform is examined. The second section finds Sadler’s social and economic reforming activities the focus of attention. Although we move away from strictly constitutional issues the section explores Sadler’s concern for the downtrodden in England and Ireland. Indeed, for Sadler, the ‘aristocratic ideal’ – the need to look after the material well- being of British subjects – was as important as preserving the political framework of the Constitution. The question of a poor law for Ireland and factory legislation in England are two key areas under examination. Another chapter in the section examines Sadler’s attempts at reform on behalf of the agricultural labourers of Britain. The thesis concludes with a reappraisal of Sadler’s contribution to social reform in the early nineteenth century together with a reassessment of his position within the Tory party.
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Strasdin, Kate. "Fashioning Alexandra : a sartorial biography of Queen Alexandra 1844-1925". Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366831/.

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In the second half of the 19th century, Alexandra Princess of Wales and later Queen Consort to her husband Edward VII became one of the most recognizable women of the period. Her image was circulated around the globe by the million and her every movement recorded daily in The Times. Despite her contemporary celebrity, she has become a lesser-known figure in modern history. With little in the way of political influence, Alexandra recognized that her ppearance in public was powerful. She used clothes throughout her life to both display and disguise herself. despite the centrality of dress in her life, no other study has ever examined her remaining items of clothing until now. This thesis considers in detail those garments that have survived from Queen Alexandra’s wardrobe, most of which, owing to their geographic spread, have never been studied before. This object-led approach allows an analysis of a life, which has been considered before in more traditional biographies. However, the close examination of the garments and of Alexandra’s approach to her clothing reveals aspects never before considered. It has also prompted the consideration of previously under researched areas such as royal laundry, the role of the dresser and the logistics of 19th century royal travel. As a multi-disciplinary project it has shed new light onto Alexandra’s life and dispelled certain apocryphal stories which only the material culture itself could reveal.
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Akel, Regina. "The journals of Maria Graham (1785-1842)". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2585/.

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Maria Graham is known as a travel writer, but she also translated works from French and German into English, wrote on history, painting, stories for children, and kept personal journals. My thesis centres on her travel journals and memoirs, published and unpublished. Graham is one of the first female travel writers to acquire fame as a writer shortly after publication, or to provoke controversy; in the cases of Brazil and Chile she actually is the first woman to write about those emerging states. She is outstanding as well for the authority of her narrative voice, her disregard of restrictions imposed on women’s text during her time, her complex approach to gender issues and for the changes experienced by her narrating persona. She begins by constructing a well informed but detached observer who reports her visit to India and the first visit to Brazil in a cold and distant voice, but who later allows another voice to filter through her text, an event that turns the narrator into a mere shadow in parts of the journal on Chile. It is in this journal that Graham begins to build up a contradictory persona who can be superior, ironic, and scathing when describing other women, but who can portray herself as a helpless heroine in a traditional romance when her script so demands it. In the second visit to Brazil this complex narrator becomes warmly eulogising of the country and its ruler, but this attitude does not last. The position is reversed in the third journal, which has elements of a spy thriller at times. The last chapter concerns the journals written in and about Europe regardless of chronology; they illustrate one of the main postulates of the thesis: that Graham evolved as narrator from detached observer to heroine up to the journals written at the end of her life, which become explorations into the narrator’s inner self.
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Dunster, Sandra. "Women of the Nottinghamshire elite, c. 1720-1820". Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12083/.

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This thesis explores the lives of women in a small group of families in the Nottinghamshire elite between 1720 and 1820. A close reading of family papers, gives access to the minutiae of female life and it is from these small details that the attitudes, activities and responsibilities of elite women are constructed. Drawing on the distinct historiographies of women and gender, and of the elite, the evidence produced by this sharply-focused approach is used to explore women's formal and informal roles, and the specific ways in which they were fulfilled, in the domestic, social, economic and political life of the elite. Consideration is first given to attitudes towards girls within the family and to how childhood experience contributed to the construction of elite womanhood. An assessment of the level of convergence between family and individual interests in the matter of marital choices is followed by an exploration of the weight of domestic responsibility experienced by women within the family, as wives, mothers and housekeepers. Attention turns to assessing the extent of female engagement with political, economic and social life, in the pursuit of personal and family interests. The narratives of women and their families illuminate how the female elite balanced the particular mix of subordination and privilege conferred upon them by gender and status. The range of activities in which they engaged and the multifaceted nature of that engagement demonstrate that throughout the eighteenth century women at all levels of the Nottinghamshire elite worked to support the ethos of elite pre-eminence in many small but cumulatively significant ways.
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Lovering, Timothy John. "Authority and identity : Malawian soldiers in Britain's colonial army, 1891-1964". Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1966.

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This thesis examines the experience of Malawian soldiers serving in Britain's colonial army between 1891 and 1964. Until recently, the experience of East African colonial soldiers in particular has been largely overlooked, and African soldiers in general have been perceived either as collaborators in the machinery of colonial oppression or, conversely, as victims at the hands of the military authorities. However, little attempt has been made to unify these two views of military service. Using Malawi as a case study, this thesis investigates social relations within the colonial army and examines perceptions of their often-violent role within wider colonial society. Developing and expanding upon previous scholarship, this thesis provides the first sustained and unified study of the colonial army in Malawi. The project is based principally upon archival sources in Britain and Malawi, but also draws upon interviews with British and Malawian veterans. Chapter one provides an overview of the institutional history of the Malawian forces. Chapter two outlines the development of recruitment policy, with special reference to the concept of 'martial races', and examines the motivations behind Malawian enlistment. Chapters three and four investigate the reactions of African soldiers to the formal military environment and to barrack life. Chapter five examines perceptions of soldiers' roles in warfare and internal security, and contrasts this with the place of soldiers in their own communities. The thesis highlights the extent to which Malawian soldiers were successfully co-opted by the military authorities, but also stresses the capacity of soldiers to influence the conditions under which they served. This, combined with the unusually long association which many Malawians had with the army, fed into a growing perception of the colonial army as a Malawian institution.
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Libri sul tema "Soldiers – Great Britain – Biography"

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Scholey, Pete. SAS heroes: Remarkable soldiers, extraordinary men. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2009.

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Scholey, Pete. SAS heroes: Remarkable soldiers, extraordinary men. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2009.

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Plumer: The soldiers' general : a biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer of Messines. London: Leo Cooper, 1990.

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1969-, Haugen David M., a cura di. Soldiers. San Diego: Blackbirch Press, 2004.

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1962-, McGovern Mick, a cura di. Soldier of the Queen. Dingle, Ireland: Brandon, 2000.

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James, Julian. A fierce quality: A biography of Brigadier Alastair Pearson. London: Cooper, 1989.

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Shoot to kill: A soldiers journey through violence. London: Cassell Military, 2004.

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Perkins, K. A fortunate soldier. London: Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1988.

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Murray, Stan. I never trailed my coat: (but found trouble all the same). London: Minerva, 1998.

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Legg, Rodney. Lawrence of Dorset: From Arabia to Clouds Hill. Wincanton: Dorset Pub., 2005.

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Roper, Michael. "Subjectivities in the Aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain After the Great War". In Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War, 165–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33476-9_7.

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Baer, Friederike. "“A Matter Pregnant with Great, Serious, National Consequences”". In Hessians, 6–36. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249632.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses King George’s decision to employ foreign auxiliary troops to fight in its war against the Americans. Ultimately, Britain concluded subsidy treaties with six German territories: Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Hanau, Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Anhalt-Zerbst, Ansbach-Bayreuth, and Waldeck. Britain’s hire of thousands of German soldiers in a war against its own subjects on another continent provoked unprecedented debates about the trade in soldiers in Britain, the American colonies, and Continental Europe. A powerful critic in German-speaking Europe was King Frederick of Prussia, who worked actively to prevent Britain from hiring Germans to fight against the Americans. However, the subsidy treaties were welcome news in some German communities, not least because of the economic benefits that were associated with them.
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Hingley, Richard. "Julius Caesar in Britain". In Conquering the Ocean, 17–42. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190937416.003.0002.

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This chapter is an exploration of the two campaigns led by the great Roman commander in 55 and 54 BCE. Caesar left a vitally important account of his invasions of south-eastern Britain which provides information about his campaigns and addresses the Iron Age peoples of Britain. Significant archaeological discoveries have supplemented, and often challenged, this narrative. These include the recent discovery of Caesar’s probable landing site from his second campaign (at Ebbsfleet, Kent) and the uncovering of a high-status Iron Age warrior burial at North Bersted (West Sussex). Caesar brought around 20,000 soldiers to Britain during his second campaign and forced the surrender of several of the kings of south-eastern Britain, including a great warrior named Cassivellaunus, who attempted to unite the opposition to Rome. Caesar described the martial valour of the Britons he fought, including their use of slingshots and chariots. Departing from Britain to return to Gaul, he took hostages and slaves, imposing a tribute on the kings of Britain. Commius was a Gallic ally of Caesar who assisted him during his invasions of Britain and eventually appears to have settled to rule over a people living to the south of the Thames. He was the first of a series of friendly kings established by Roman rulers in Britain. The North Bersted warrior may have been a member of a retinue of cavalry soldiers who accompanied Commius to Britain after Caesar had withdrawn.
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"1. Great War and Great Crisis: China, Britain, France, and the “Laborers as Soldiers” Strategy". In Strangers on the Western Front, 10–37. Harvard University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674060555-003.

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Ng, Su Fang. "Millennial Alexander in the Making of Aceh". In Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia, 243–76. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777687.003.0009.

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This chapter examines how the Acehnese appropriated Alexander the Great as a model of kingship and imitated Melaka in fashioning a royal mythic genealogy going back to Iskandar Zulkarnain. The discussion focuses on one Acehnese sultan, Sultan Iskandar Muda (r. 1607–36), whose name means Alexander the Younger and whose reign is considered Aceh’s golden age. The chapter explores Aceh’s parallel literary allusions to Alexander, incorporated into local literary genres, through an analysis of Iskandar Muda’s biography, Hikayat Aceh. It shows how Hikayat Aceh employs tropes of Timurid-Alexandrian kingship that are also found in diplomatic letters to European kings, including James I of England. It also describes Hikayat Aceh’s understanding of diplomatic relations as a complex entanglement and how the Acehnese turned to the global tradition of Alexander to reflect on intercultural relations with foreign others.
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"Material culture and the ‘after-care’ of disabled soldiers in Britain during the Great War". In Bodies in Conflict, 111–22. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315851846-16.

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Caramello, Charles. "Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others". In Riding to Arms, 64–107. University Press of Kentucky, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182308.003.0003.

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Shifting from horsemen and the military application of horsemanship to horse soldiers and cavalry theory and practice, the lengthy Chapter 3, "Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others," traces the rise and fall of horse cavalry over the "long nineteenth century" (Napoleonic Wars through Great War of 1914-18), mainly in Great Britain and the United States, using period treatises and histories on military horsemanship and cavalry tactics, and ending with Great War postmortems on the future of horse cavalry in mechanized warfare. It focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on an ongoing debate between traditionalists advocating mounted fighting with sabers and reformists advocating dismounted fighting with carbines or rifles, a debate culminating in the "arme blanche controversy" of the pre-Great War years.
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Brown, Martin. "Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of the Great War". In Archaeologists and the Dead. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753537.003.0013.

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There are still tens of thousands of missing soldiers from the Great War, 1914–18. The nature of the conflict—particularly on the Western Front where the front lines moved very little for long periods, and where men disappeared into the mud of no-man’s-land between the lines of trenches, or were buried on the battlefield, only to have their graves destroyed by artillery fire, or lost as the front line moved—means that all the conflicting nations have significant numbers of missing combatants. Each year, agriculture, development, and archaeological work undertaken in the conflict zone uncover remains of fallen soldiers. These remains are regarded in a different way to other human remains, particularly those found on more traditional archaeological excavations, such as Roman sites, and are subject to different and sometimes contesting claims of ownership. Some of these claims are based in law, others originate in biological or fictive kin affiliations, whether familial, martial, or locational, national, or even archaeological. It may even come from membership of special interest groups that study and/or memorialize the conflict, or from ownership of the ground on which bodies were found. These ties and claims may be conflicting and/or complementary. As a result, an archaeologist who encounters and recovers such remains will find themselves engaged in a complex legal, social, and political landscape in which they are unable to adopt an objective position regarding both the people whom they study and the numerous interests and agents with whom they must engage. Where human remains occur on traditional archaeological excavations in Europe, the remains are unlikely to be the subject of controversy or contestation, although there have been recent moves by neo-pagans to make treatment of human remains an issue in Britain (CoBDO 2010). The situation is much less clear as regards the remains of fallen soldiers from the Great War; their discovery raises questions of ownership, both actual and perceived and the key question is: ‘To whom does the body belong?’ The Great War, 1914–18, was one of appalling loss. The British Empire alone lost 956,703 uniformed personnel (War Office 1922: 237).
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"June 1917". In John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, 1917-1919, a cura di John T. Greenwood, 169–244. University Press of Kentucky, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813181332.003.0003.

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This chapter includes Pershing’s June 1917 correspondence after arriving in Great Britain and establishing the American Expeditionary Force’s Headquarters in Paris. The correspondence describes meetings with British and French officials and his recommendations regarding America’s control of military operations in France. Letters discuss the urgent need to train American soldiers in French camps and establishing protocols for waging gas warfare on the western front. The chapter includes extensive supplementary information to provide the reader with background information pertinent to Pershing’s letters.
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Stewart, Victoria. "Understanding War Crimes Trials in Postwar Britain". In Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain, 1–30. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858238.003.0001.

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Abstract The introduction identifies depictions of Allied troops’ arrival at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, and the British-run trial of personnel from the camp held at Lüneberg in September–October the same year, as key reference points for the understanding of the Holocaust in British culture at this period. But other aspects of Nazi criminality, such as the fates of the Allied soldiers who were recaptured after the so-called Great Escape of prisoners of war from Stalag Luft III, or the treatment of Special Operations Executive agents detained while working undercover on mainland Europe, also vied for attention as a narrative of the war began to take shape. Early depictions of the camps show a number of characteristics that persist in the texts to be discussed in detail in later chapters. The names of camps are often used metonymically in place of more extensive descriptions, a device that implies a shared understanding on the part of readers, but which can appear to minimize or pass over important defining details. Similarly, in fictional works, minor characters are often given the burden of representing or standing for the varied fates of the victims of Nazism. While this strategy could also be seen as tokenistic, it often has a disruptive effect on the narrative as a whole. Where autobiographical or biographical accounts are concerned, generic uncertainty is also characteristic, with authors acknowledging, through structural and stylistic experiment, the representational challenges posed by the events they are attempting to describe.
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