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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"Military History"”.
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A Socio-Military History of the Fourth Missouri Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
This is a socio-military history of the 4th Missouri Infantry; a Confederate unit that traced its roots to state militia in 1861 and went on to become one of the most experienced units in the U.S. Civil War. While providing a narrative of its campaign and battles, the thesis focuses on the enlisted …
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Send in the Reserves! The Development and Significance of the Reserve Dilemma in Military History
… evolution of the trained reserve—a 19th-century military institution that most states continue to depend upon for national defense. In doing so, it argues that the rising complexity, speed, and lethality of warfare over the last century challenged the viability of industrial era reservist …
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Army officers, historians and journalists : the emergence, expansion and diversification of British military history, 1854-1914
… of the Crimean War in 1854, Britain had only one military academy which taught Military History, the subject was overlooked at universities, few historians wrote on the topic and the government had not yet sanctioned the writing of official history. Yet, by the outbreak of the First World War in …
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From Revolutionary War heroes to navy cruisers : the role of public history and military history in Vincennes, Indiana
This thesis looks at the role that public history, expressed through civic pride and public memory, and military history have played in shaping the history of Vincennes, Indiana, from the battle fought by George Rogers Clark to the memorial named after him and finally with the four United States …
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A social and Military History of the 1/8th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in the Great War
… Introduction] This work examines the social and military development of the 1/8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in the Great War. It covers the period from the unit’s formation, in 1908, to the end of the war and will embrace both a sociological analysis of the unit’s members and an …
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The role of castles in the political and military history of the Crusader States and the Levant 1187 to 1380
… that they also fulfilled a wide variety of non-military functions as prisons, residences, courthouses and administrative centres. Most importantly, however, they enabled heavily outnumbered Latin newcomers to conquer large parts of the eastern Mediterranean without having to match their …
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'Destructive and formidable': British infantry firepower, 1642-1765
… and propose a new approach to the study of military history; practical military history, which uses a thorough understanding of the practices and procedures of the army to interpret and analyse contemporary writings on the subject. In doing so it has been possible to identify and analyse the …
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An Analysis of British Army Veterans’ Oral Testimony and the Campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
… have long been seen as natural subjects for oral history, and the task of collecting their reminiscences has been the focus of substantial attention by institutions such as the Imperial War Museum. Military historians often draw upon such interviews in their research; however, their handling of …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
From 1914 to 1919, the German military established an occupation zone in the territory of present day Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Cultural historians have generally focused on the role of German soldiers as psychological and physical victims trapped in total war that was out of their control. …
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
… focuses on the anthropological discussion of military museums and analysis of the material culture of conflict, and specifically on military museums in the United States and in Europe. Using a comparative approach, I look at how "new museology" and "new museum theory" is or is not being …
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Last Rites for Uptown
… that I have never met; and my grandparents’ military history spanning three continents in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Rockbridge Artillery, C. S. A.
"The Rockbridge Artillery, C. S. A." is a socio-military history of an artillery battery during the Civil War. Initially composed of men strictly from Rockbridge County, Va., the battery eventually drew its members from throughout the Confederacy. Taken largely from personal reminiscences, letters …
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General Sir Richard O'Connor, a profile of his life and career
… planned and directed; it has few parallels in military history. Not surprisingly, a great deal has been written about O'Connor's African victory; O'Connor himself, however, has remained strangely obscure. Indeed, virtually nothing of his "pre" and "post" desert career can be found in print. It …
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"Women with their eyes on the stars": The Women Airforce Service Pilots' fight for recognition, 1939-2016
… sparse historiography of the WASP and women’s military history as a whole, provides insight on women’s roles within the armed forces, and the unique struggles they faced, and serves as a new insightful approach to the social history of the Second World War. iii</p>
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The contributions of Edward A. Pollard's The Lost Cause to the Myth of the Lost Cause
… Cause, it was widely read, not as myth, but as history, especially in the South. Then, after 1900, it was largely forgotten. However, starting in the early 1970s, historians began to investigate the Myth of the Lost Cause as a myth. Pollard’s name and the title of his book finally came up again, …
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Combat motivation in the eighteenth-century British army
… motivation of soldiers in combat is important to Military history. Combat motivation in the army of eighteenth-century Britain merits study, since the subject as it pertains to pre-industrial armies has at present received little attention. The soldiers of Hanoverian Britain received motivation …
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Governor's Island : designing the present through the past
History and memory, along with relics, are our tools to retrieve the past. How can they also be the tools to create the present? This thesis explores how history and memory can be integral in the establishment of a new program for a site and inform the architecture of that site. This thesis …
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A version
… experiences, and hopes, here largely circling military history, myth, family, physical body, and love. This thesis exhibits the movement toward, and simultaneously away from, the constraints of form, asking how it is that creativity enters into free flowing abundance through formal parameters; …
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“My Bruises Are Inward:” A Study of Mental Trauma in the American Civil War
… experienced mental trauma related to their military service. It does so through three lenses. Focused on the mental trauma among Northern veterans, this study investigates in particular the relationship between mental trauma and socioeconomic status. It analyzes the experiences of both white …
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