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  1. By the noble daring of her sons
    the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0817386033; 9780817317072; 9780817386030
    Subjects: Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literatur; Military history, Modern
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 319 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    List of maps; Preface; 1. Therefore let us unite: Florida's secession; 2. Like achilles he has girded on his armor: April-September 1861; 3. The war trumpet is sounding its blasts in every direction around us: October-December 1861; 4. Its flag will show where the fight was hottest: January-April 1862, West Florida and Shiloh; 5. To maintain inviolate the sacred honor of Florida: January-May 1862, East Florida; 6. Our cause is just and we need not fear defeat: Floridians' rationales for fighting the Civil War; 7. I am now as you know in the enemys country: June-August 1862

  2. The world of the siege
    representations of early modern positional warfare
    Contributor: Fischer-Kattner, Anke (HerausgeberIn); Ostwald, Jamel (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Front Matter -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- o -- Introduction /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) /Sigrun Haude -- Colchester’s Plight in European... more

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    Front Matter -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- o -- Introduction /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) /Sigrun Haude -- Colchester’s Plight in European Perspective: Printed Representations of Seventeenth-Century Siege Warfare /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- More Honored in the Breach? Representations of Honor in Louisquatorzian Sieges /Jamel Ostwald -- Straddling Empires: Revolt and Religion in Early Modern Dalmatia /Eric R Dursteler -- The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective /Philip J. Stern -- Narratives of Akbar’s Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty /Pratyay Nath -- Siege Warfare in Verse and Prose: the Ottoman Conquest of Kamianets-Podilsky (Kamaniçe), 1672 /Kahraman Şakul -- Siegecraft in Ming and Qing China /Tonio Andrade -- “The Enterprises and Surprises That They Would Like to Perform:” Fear, Urban Identities, and Siege Culture during the French Wars of Religion /Brian Sandberg -- Summary: Under Siege? Defining Siege Warfare in World History /Peter H Wilson -- Back Matter -- Index. The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into the 18th. The international contributors analyse how siege narratives were created and disseminated, and how early modern actors as well as later historians made sense of these violent events in both textual and visual artefacts. . The volume's chronological and geographical breadth provides insight into similarities and differences of siege warfare and military culture across several cultures, countries and centuries, as well as its impact on both combatants and observers

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Fischer-Kattner, Anke (HerausgeberIn); Ostwald, Jamel (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004395695
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    Series: History of warfare ; volume 126
    Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386310
    Subjects: Siege warfare; Military history, Modern
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 316 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. The world of the siege
    representations of early modern positional warfare
    Contributor: Fischer-Kattner, Anke (HerausgeberIn); Ostwald, Jamel (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Front Matter -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- o -- Introduction /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) /Sigrun Haude -- Colchester’s Plight in European... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Front Matter -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- o -- Introduction /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) /Sigrun Haude -- Colchester’s Plight in European Perspective: Printed Representations of Seventeenth-Century Siege Warfare /Anke Fischer-Kattner -- More Honored in the Breach? Representations of Honor in Louisquatorzian Sieges /Jamel Ostwald -- Straddling Empires: Revolt and Religion in Early Modern Dalmatia /Eric R Dursteler -- The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective /Philip J. Stern -- Narratives of Akbar’s Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty /Pratyay Nath -- Siege Warfare in Verse and Prose: the Ottoman Conquest of Kamianets-Podilsky (Kamaniçe), 1672 /Kahraman Şakul -- Siegecraft in Ming and Qing China /Tonio Andrade -- “The Enterprises and Surprises That They Would Like to Perform:” Fear, Urban Identities, and Siege Culture during the French Wars of Religion /Brian Sandberg -- Summary: Under Siege? Defining Siege Warfare in World History /Peter H Wilson -- Back Matter -- Index. The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into the 18th. The international contributors analyse how siege narratives were created and disseminated, and how early modern actors as well as later historians made sense of these violent events in both textual and visual artefacts. . The volume's chronological and geographical breadth provides insight into similarities and differences of siege warfare and military culture across several cultures, countries and centuries, as well as its impact on both combatants and observers

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Fischer-Kattner, Anke (HerausgeberIn); Ostwald, Jamel (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004395695
    Other identifier:
    Series: History of warfare ; volume 126
    Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386310
    Subjects: Siege warfare; Military history, Modern
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 316 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index