A Yeoman's Letters (1901)
A Yeoman's Letters (1901)

Author: P. T. Ross

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781104007188

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

An Imperial War and the British Working Class
An Imperial War and the British Working Class

Author: Richard Price

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1134529783

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First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the 'place in the sun' that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the United States of America. Doubts arouse about her economic strength, her military prowess, even the viability of the two-party system. The South African War of 1899-1902 served for a time as the focus for all the fears that many Britons had about their country's future. The patriotism it engendered was exaggerated by the early military failures to resolve the problem of the troublesome Boers. The focus of the text is on working-class attitudes and reactions to the Boer War 1899-1902.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition

Author: Ross P T

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781318962587

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The Yeomanry Cavalry and Military Identities in Rural Britain, 1815–1914
The Yeomanry Cavalry and Military Identities in Rural Britain, 1815–1914

Author: George Hay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3319655396

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This volume represents the first dedicated study of the British Yeomanry Cavalry, delving into the institution’s history from the cessation of hostilities with France in 1815 through to the eve of the First World War in 1914. This social history explores the Yeomanry’s composition and place within British society, as well as its controversial role in policing before and after Peterloo, and its unique contribution to the war in South Africa. Overturning or challenging many enduring myths and accepted truths, this book breaks new ground not just in our understanding of the Yeomanry, but the wider amateur military tradition.

Soldiers and Their Horses
Soldiers and Their Horses

Author: Jane Flynn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1000030385

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The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the early twentieth century and a history of the British Army, Soldiers and their Horses reconciles the hard pragmatism of war with the imaginative and emotional. By carefully overlapping the civilian and the military, by juxtaposing "sense" and "sentimentality," and by considering institutional policy alongside individual experience, the soldier and his horse are re-instated as co-participators in The Great War. Soldiers and their Horses provides a valuable contribution to current thinking about the role of horses in history.

Absent-Minded Beggars
Absent-Minded Beggars

Author: Will Bennett

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1999-10-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1473811619

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The British Army suffered one of its greatest crises when in December 1899 the Boer irregulars inflicted three reverses in South Africa in 'Black Week'. A nation grown accustomed to success was stunned. Part of the answer was a very British blend of patriotism and pragmatism. For the first time civilian volunteers and part-time soldiers were allowed to fight overseas to the horror of traditionalist professional soldiers. Yet, by the end of the Boer War, almost 90,000 men had volunteered to serve the Colours. Much of sporting high society joined the newly formed Imperial Yeomanry. The Volunteers sent infantrymen to serve alongside the regulars and the City of London financed the raising of the City Imperial Volunteers. Men also came forward from the colonies. This book tells the story of these volunteer units.

Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline
Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline

Author: Christopher Prior

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1137373415

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Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by a profound set of doubts about the future of the British Empire. Drawing upon a wide range of popular sources, this study considers the level of middle-class engagement with such strains of pessimistic thought.