Blackwood' Tales from the Outposts - Volume X - Shikar
Blackwood' Tales from the Outposts - Volume X - Shikar

Author: Various

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1473340985

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This book contains a collection of vintage hunting articles written by various authors. Including insightful anecdotes and instructional guides, this collection will appeal to all modern readers with an interest in hunting. Contents include: "The Finest Sport in the World. By A. Blayney Perceval", "The Great Boar of Birkatheli", "The Hunting of Ngagi. By Ashley Gibson and H. F. Fenn", "Some Pig-Sticking", "Shooting Takin in Eastern Tibet. By Lieut. Colonel F. M. Bailey", "A New Method with the Dry Fly. By Horace Hutchinson", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of hunting.

'At Duty's Call'
'At Duty's Call'

Author: W. J. Reader

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1526119501

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The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen’s shilling. Yet in the first sixteen months of the Great War two and a half million men from the UK and many more from the empire, flocked to the colours – without any form of legal compulsion. There had never been a volunteer army like it. What was in the air of England in the generation or so before 1914 to bring about such collective exultation? How did it come about that, in a society which – in oft-proclaimed contrast to Germany – rejected conscription and prided itself on having no taint of militarism, men could be induced to volunteer in such numbers? The nation’s general state of mind, system of values and set of attitudes derived largely from the upper middle class, which had emerged and become dominant during the nineteenth century. The book examines the phenomenon of 1914 and the views held by people of that class, since it was under their leadership that the country went to war.

Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism
Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism

Author: J.A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1317969596

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The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the ‘blooding’ hunting ritual was a visible ‘hallmark’ of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the period poet of subaltern self-sacrifice, typically considered hunting as essential for the creation of a ‘masculine sporting spirit’ necessary for the consolidation and extension of the empire. Hunting was seen as a manifestation of Darwinian masculinity that maintained a pre-ordained hierarchical order of superordinate and subordinate breeds. Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism examines these ideas under the following five sections: martial imperialism: the self-sacrificial subaltern ‘blooding’ the middle class martial male the imperial officer, hunting and war martial masculinity proclaimed and consolidated martial masculinity adapted and adjusted. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story
The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1107084172

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This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.