1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790724903321

Autore

Chríost Diarmait Mac Giolla

Titolo

Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration [[electronic resource] ] : Branwen’s Starling / / by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-34870-8

1-137-37227-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

Classificazione

LAN009000LIT004120

Disciplina

891.6/6099206927

Soggetti

British literature

Sociolinguistics

British and Irish Literature

Linguistics, general

Wales Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. D. Gwenallt Jones -- 3. Saunders Lewis -- 4. T. E. Nicholas -- 5. Waldo Williams -- 6. Meg Elis -- 7. Menna Elfyn -- 8. Angharad Tomos -- 9. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and the Welsh language, the nature of political activism, and the function of incarceration.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971173303321

Autore

Carlton Charles <1941->

Titolo

This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746 / / Charles Carlton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-33181-0

9786613331816

0-300-18088-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 332 p. : ill

Disciplina

355.020941/0903

Soggetti

Military art and science - Great Britain - History

Great Britain History, Military 1485-1603

Great Britain History, Military 1603-1714

Great Britain History, Military 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- chapter 1 Early Tudor Warfare, 1485-1558 -- chapter 2 Give Me Spirit: Joining and Training -- chapter 3 This Happy Breed of Men: Elizabethan Warfare, 1558-1603 -- chapter 4 Why Men Fought -- chapter 5 Those Were Golden Days: Early Stuart Warfare, 1603-1639 -- chapter 6 Low Intensity Combat: Campaigning -- chapter 7 All Diseased: Civil Wars and Commonwealth: Events, 1638-1660 -- chapter 8 Talk You of Killing: Civil Wars and Commonwealth: Impact, 1638-1660 -- chapter 9 High Intensity Combat: Battles and Sieges -- chapter 10 Restoration to Glorious Revolution, 1660-1688 -- chapter 11 The Peril of the Waters: War at Sea -- chapter 12 Let Slip the Dogs of War: After the Glorious Revolution: 1688-1746 -- chapter 13 The Hurlyburly's Done: The Aftermath of Combat -- Conclusion: The Hand of War -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often-and most bloodily-against each other. The



almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and one-half centuries between Bosworth and Culloden decimated lives, but created the British state and forged the nation as the world's predominant power.In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death. Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries-camaraderie, courage, fear, and grief-to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples.