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The Crimean War and its Afterlife - Making Modern Britain (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Crimean War and its Afterlife - Making Modern Britain (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as
an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion
better forgotten. In The Crimean War and its Afterlife Lara Kriegel
sets out to rescue the Crimean War from the shadows. Kriegel offers
a fresh account of the conflict and its afterlife: revisiting
beloved figures like Florence Nightingale and hallowed events like
the Charge of the Light Brigade, while also turning attention to
newer worthies, including Mary Seacole. In this book a series of
six case studies transport us from the mid-Victorian moment to the
current day, focusing on the heroes, institutions, and values
wrought out of the crucible of the war. Time and again, ordinary
Britons looked to the war as a template for social formation and a
lodestone for national belonging. With lucid prose and rich
illustrations, this book vividly demonstrates the uncanny
persistence of a Victorian war in the making of modern Britain.
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