Автор: Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca Название: Indian Militia and Description of the Indies ISBN: 0822342979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822342977 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 101810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and Inca Empires had long since fallen by 1599, but Vargas Machuca argued that many more Native American peoples remained to be conquered and converted to Roman Catholicism. What makes his often shrill and self-righteous treatise surprising is his consistent praise of indigenous resistance techniques and medicinal practices.
Containing advice on curing rattlesnake bites with amethysts and making saltpeter for gunpowder from concentrated human urine, The Indian Militia is a manual in four parts, the first of which outlines the ideal qualities of the militia commander. Addressing the organization and outfitting of conquest expeditions, Book Two includes extended discussions of arms and medicine. Book Three covers the proper behavior of soldiers, providing advice on marching through peaceful and bellicose territories, crossing rivers, bivouacking in foul weather, and carrying out night raids and ambushes. Book Four deals with peacemaking, town-founding, and the proper treatment of conquered peoples. Appended to these four sections is a brief geographical description of all of Spanish America, with special emphasis on the indigenous peoples of New Granada (roughly modern-day Colombia), followed by a short guide to the southern coasts and heavens. This first English-language edition of The Indian Militia includes an extensive introduction, a posthumous report on Vargas Machuca’s military service, and a selection from his unpublished attack on the writings of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Автор: Gilbert Ed Название: Patriot Militiaman in the American Revolution 1775–82 ISBN: 1472807545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472807540 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 14840.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Provides a focus on the history of the ancestors, who fought for the South Carolina Militia, to show just how effective the irregular forces were in a complex war of raids, ambushes, and pitched battles. This book explores the tactics, and performance of the opposing Patriot and Rebel forces, shining new light on the vicious struggle in the South.
Автор: Scott Название: The Maligned Militia ISBN: 1472437713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472437716 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 132710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. Drawing on information gathered from personal accounts, private papers, letters, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia`s performance in helping to defeat the so-called `pitchfork rebellion`.
Автор: Mulloy, Darren Название: American Extremism ISBN: 0415326745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415326742 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Glasrud Bruce A. Название: Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917 ISBN: 0826222358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826222350 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 28650.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Offers insights into the varied experiences of black militia units in the post-Civil War period. The book includes eleven articles that focus either on `Black Participation in the Militia` or `Black Volunteer Units in the War with Spain`. The articles provide an overview of the history of early black citizen-soldiers.
Автор: Singletary Otis A. Название: Negro Militia and Reconstruction ISBN: 0292741766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741768 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Originally published in 1957, this book is the story of Reconstruction`s ill-fated Negro Militia movement, a story with important implication for later times.
Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the contrary, the militia remained an active civil institution in the early nineteenth century, affecting the era’s great social, political, and economic transitions. In fact, given their degree of community involvement, militiamen were more influential in Kentucky’s maturation than any other formal community organization.
Citizens More than Soldiers reveals that the militia was not the atrophied remnant of the Revolution’s minutemen but an ongoing organization that maintained an important presence in American society. This study also shows that citizen-soldiers participated in their communities by establishing local, regional, and national identities, reinforcing the social hierarchy, advancing democratization and party politics, keeping the public peace, encouraging economic activity, and defining concepts of masculinity. A more accurate understanding of the militia’s contribution to American society extends our comprehension of the evolutionary processes of a maturing nation, showing, for example, how citizen-soldiers promoted nationalism, encouraged democratization, and maintained civil order. Citizens More than Soldiers is not a traditional military history of campaigns and battles but rather the story of citizen-soldiers and their contribution to the transformation of American society in the nineteenth century.
Автор: James Wood Название: Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921 ISBN: 0774817658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774817653 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 99530.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This cultural history of the amateur military tradition traces the origins of the citizen soldier ideal from long before Canadians donned khaki and boarded troopships for the Western Front. Before the Great War, Canada’s military culture was in transition as the country navigated an uncertain relationship with the United States and fought an imperial war in South Africa. Militia Myths explores the ideological transformation that took place between 1896 and 1921, arguing that by the end of the War, the untrained citizen volunteer had replaced the long-serving militiaman as the archetypal Canadian soldier.
Автор: Mulloy, Darren Название: American Extremism ISBN: 0415483808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415483803 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 57150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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