British Military Spectacle : From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea / Scott Hughes Myerly.
Myerly, Scott Hughes, author.
2013
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Title British Military Spectacle : From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea / Scott Hughes Myerly.
Author Myerly, Scott Hughes, author.
Edition Reprint 2014
ISBN 9780674182608
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182608
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©1996
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (293 p.) : 16 color illustrations, 17 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674182608 doi
Call Number DA68
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.1/7/094109034
Summary In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction: Army Life
CHAPTER ONE. The Spectacular Image
CHAPTER TWO. Command and Design
CHAPTER THREE. Recruiting
CHAPTER FOUR. Discipline
CHAPTER FIVE. Morale
CHAPTER SIX. Campaign and Combat
CHAPTER SEVEN. Civil Disorder
CHAPTER EIGHT. Entertainment, Power, and Paradigm
Conclusion: The Martial Vision
BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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