Craig Stockings

Britannia's Shield (eBook, PDF)

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defence

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Produktbeschreibung

Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sense of the failures, false starts and successes that eventually led to more than 850,000 men being despatched from the Dominions to buttress Britain's Great War effort - an enormous achievement for intra-empire military cooperation. Craig Stockings presents a vivid portrayal of this complex process as it unfolded throughout the late-Victorian Empire through a biographical study of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton. As a true soldier of the Empire, the difficulties and dramas that followed Hutton's career at every step - from Cairo to Sydney, Aldershot to Ottawa, and Pretoria to Melbourne - provide key insights into imperial defence and security planning between 1880 and 1914. Richly illustrated, Britannia's Shield is an engaging and entertaining work of rigorous scholarship that will appeal to both general readers and academic researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316277195
• Artikelnr.: 42880530

Autorenporträt

Craig Stockings is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. His areas of academic interest concern general and Australian military history and operational analysis. He has published a history of the army cadet movement in Australia entitled: The Torch and the Sword (2007), a study of the First Libyan Campaign in North Africa 1940¿41: Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac (2009), and a re-interpretation of the German invasion of Greece in 1941 entitled: Swastika over the Acropolis (2013; with Dr Eleanor Hancock). He has also edited Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (2010), Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History (2012) and Before the Anzac Dawn (2013; with Dr John Connor).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: imperial defence: one man within an empire; 1. 'The common duties of the Empire': developments in the imperial defence idea, 1848
92; 2. 'An intelligent and most active officer': Hutton's formative years, 1848
92; 3. 'I suppose he sent me a blister': a colonial commandant, 1893
96; 4. A 'Trojan Horse' in the colony?: federal and imperial defence in Australia, 1893
96; 5. 'One general policy
elastic as it may be': back in Britain, 1896
98; 6. 'Making soldiers of them rapidly': reforming the Canadian militia, 1898
99; 7. 'I am here as one of yourselves': political difficulties and imperial imperatives, 1898
99; 8. 'Pregnant of great results': Canada and an Imperial War, 1899
1900; 9. 'Quite as much political and Imperial, as it is military': Hutton's war in South Africa and raising an Australian army, 1900
03; 10. 'Unfortunately not in touch or sympathy': difficulties and disappointments, 1903
04; 11. 'Hopelessly ignorant of our self-governing colonies': the New Australian Army and imperial defence, 1902
04; Epilogue: 'how far his vision ranged': the twilight years, 1905
23.