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Autore |
Gruber Ira D |
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Titolo |
Books and the British Army in the age of the American Revolution / / Ira D. Gruber |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press |
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[Washington, D.C.], : Copublished with the Society of the Cincinnati, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-9313-299-1 |
1-4696-0393-4 |
0-8078-9940-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Military art and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 British forces |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: a French connection -- Officers and their books -- Books preferred -- Books not taken. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over nine hundred books on war were considered most important by British officers and how those books might have affected the army from one era to another. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows |
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