Spectacle and power: Military imagery and the British Army, 1803-1856

In the early nineteenth century, the British army placed a high priority on maintaining a splendid outward spectacle, but this was not merely the result of sartorial frivolity on the past of military commanders. Images constitute a fundamental means by which peoples' opinions and actions are influenced, and the British army between 1803 and 1856 utilized uniform, ritual and ceremony as components of their system of management. A relationship between images and the exercise of power clearly existed which has previously been overlooked by military and social historians.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Myerly, Scott Hughes

Contributors dc:contributor

• Arnstein, Walter L.

• History, European
• History, Modern
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Myerly, Scott Hughes

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9026277
(UMI)AAI9026277

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19605