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UNINA9910163192803321 |
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Autore |
Wilson Thomas Fourness |
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The Defence of Lucknow, a Diary Recording the Daily Events During the Siege of the European Residency : From 31st May to 25th Sept. 1857 [Illustrated Edition] |
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TBD : , : Normanby Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (199 p.) |
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Diaries |
Military historians |
Lucknow (India) |
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Monografia |
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Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ADVERTISEMENT. -- DIARY OF EVENTS AT LUCKNOW. -- APPENDIX. -- No. I.-COLONEL RADCLIFFE’s (7th Light Cavalry) NARRATIVE. -- No. II. - ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLOSION AT THE SEIMH SQUARE. ON 18TH OF AUGUST. -- No. III. - DIVISION ORDERS BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR J. OUTRAM, G.C.B. -- No. IV. - FROM BRIGADIER INGLIS, COMMANDING GARRISON AT LUCKNOW, TO THE, SECRETARY TO GOVERNOR MILITARY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA. -- No. V. -- ILLUSTRATIONS |
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]Originally published anonymously as by a "Staff Officer", Captain Thomas Wilson's memoirs are as gripping and vivid as any that a British officer wrote of the Famous Siege of Lucknow. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 many towns and cities were laid waste by riotous elements of the Indian Army. Many Europeans, having heard of the many slaughters and outrages sought safety were they could, hoping to shield themselves with British troops and loyal Sepoys. The European residency in Lucknow was the refuge of 3000 men, women and children of the |
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surrounding area, it was immediately besieged by at least 20,000 Indian troops and rioters. Pounded by cannon, shot, and shell the besieged were under constant threat, the stocks of food dwindled and the threat of disease was never far away. Despite the severe privations the Mutineers could not crack the resistance, they hatched a plot to tunnel under the walls of the Residency and blow it up from beneath. Captain Wilson's Diary records the often bloody events of each day in his diary as he and his compatriots fight for their lives and praying for relief. |
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UNINA9910951804503321 |
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Autore |
Hernández Barbosa Sonsoles |
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Titolo |
Exciting the Body : Sensoriality and Capitalism in Modern Culture / / by Sonsoles Hernández Barbosa |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
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[1st ed. 2024.] |
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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Civilization - History |
Culture - Study and teaching |
Social history |
History, Modern |
Europe - History |
Cultural History |
Cultural Studies |
Social History |
Modern History |
European History |
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1. Introduction: Modernity, a culture of the senses -- 2. Department stores: Trading in sensible pleasure -- 3. The birth of mass marketing: the image in the pursuit of empathy -- 4. Come and see: sensory stimulation in leisure culture -- 5. Material culture for sensibility in the private environment -- 6. Pathologies of over-stimulation: an interpretation based on Georg Simmel -- 7. The dandy or how to distinguish oneself through the senses -- 8. Conclusion: Rethinking the modern individual through the senses. |
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"In Exciting the Body Hernández Barbosa builds a highly original and cohesive argument about sensory stimulation as it has intersected with the history of commercial culture. The author brings fresh perspectives on the study of consumer culture by applying theoretical insights drawn from musicology, cultural history and art history to analyse a wide range of sources, including sounds that affect the senses. This interdisciplinary book would appeal to those interested in the history of commercial culture, visual culture, and musicology." — Haejeong Hazel Hahn, Professor of History, Seattle University, USA This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularisation of objects aimed at the senses (such as panoramas, optical boxes, automatons, music boxes and pianolas), and also through marketing mechanisms (for example, advertising and window dressing). All these novel objects and spaces had one thing in common: the aim of attracting the public by stimulating the senses. By examining practices that mobilised the senses in the emerging fields of advertising, marketing and the leisure industry, and through an approach that involves elements from the history of the senses, visual studies, sound studies and aesthetics, this book explores what this new sensory-driven mass culture was all about. The basis of English translation of this book, originally in Spanish Vidas excitadas. Sensorialidad y capitalismo en la cultura moderna (2022), was facilitated by artificial intelligence. The author, with the support of Lucille Banham, has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. Sonsoles Hernández Barbosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Sciences and Art Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. |
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