Publications : 25
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PublicationFashioning regulation, regulating fashion: the uniforms and dress of the British Army 1800-1815 Volume II
The second part of an investigation into the clothing orders of the late-Georgian British Army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army – comparing the regulated dress with the ‘modes of the army’ as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations. The first quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed a refinement […]
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PublicationUniforms of the Armies at Waterloo: Volume 2: The Allied Armies
Drawn from authentic sources by the artist Charles James Lyall, one of the classic English uniform artists at the beginning of the 20thcentury. In 1894 Lyall launched a series of uniform plates on the armies at Waterloo in 1815. Lyall compiled series of numerous uniform prints of British, Indian and various European armies and epochs. […]
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PublicationThe Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871: Touring the Sedan Campaign
In 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of Chalons, it meant his abdication and exile. For France it resulted […]
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PublicationThe Death of the French Atlantic > Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Publisher’s presentation “The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France’s Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country’s competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war at sea against France’s most consistent enemy and commercial rival […]
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PublicationThe Napoleonic Wars A Global History
We should perhaps not be surprised that, as a global pandemic currently underscores the reality of the global village, Alexander Mikaberidze should brilliantly have taken the history of the Napoleonic Wars and set it rightfully in its worldwide perspective. In this, Mikaberidze not also gives the reader a retrospective (but also contemporary) view of the […]