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Book Vice in the Barracks

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Wald
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-03-26
  • ISBN : 1137270993
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Vice in the Barracks written by E. Wald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author. Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery in India – the costly, but often unruly, 'thin white line' of colonial rule. This book examines the colonial state's approach to these vice-driven health risks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperial mindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexual deviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals a lesser-explored fact of rule – the fractured nature of the Company state. Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with these vice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for the army itself but for India and the empire more broadly. By refocusing our attention on to the military core of the colonial state, Wald demonstrates the ways in which army decision-making stretched beyond the cantonment boundary to help define the state's engagement with and understanding of Indian society.

Book The Barracks Thief

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  • Author : Tobias Wolff
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 0062376888
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book The Barracks Thief written by Tobias Wolff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.

Book The Gentleman s Magazine

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."

Book The Army List

Download or read book The Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Army List

Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The army list

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1817
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The army list written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Navy Air Force Register and Defense Times

Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Register and Defense Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regulations for the Army of the United States  1908

Download or read book Regulations for the Army of the United States 1908 written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentleman s Magazine  and Historical Chronicle

Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Chronicle

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review

Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

Book Twenty fifth Civilian Aides and Seventeenth Secretariat Alumni Conference

Download or read book Twenty fifth Civilian Aides and Seventeenth Secretariat Alumni Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army   navy calendar

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  • Author : T. Atkins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Army navy calendar written by T. Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: