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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b9761533.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History, Military 19th century.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Modernity.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 293 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "British military spectacle.".
- catalog identifier "0674082494 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "British military spectacle.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "British military spectacle.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History, Military 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "355.1/7/094109034 20".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, British.".
- catalog subject "Crimean War, 1853-1856.".
- catalog subject "DA68 .M94 1996".
- catalog subject "Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.".
- catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Spectacular, The.".
- catalog title "British military spectacle : from the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea / Scott Hughes Myerly.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Military history. fast".
- catalog type "text".