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Garrisons --- Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation. --- History of military science. --- Period between World Wars (1919-1939) --- Garrisons. --- Military towns. --- History --- Poland. --- History. --- 1918-1943. --- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland) --- Poland --- History, Military

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This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and invites readers to reevaluate their understanding of a critical period in Chinese history. Drawing on poetry, local history, archaeology, and Buddhist materials, as well as more traditional historical sources, Andrew Chittick explores the culture and interrelationships of the leading figures of the Xiangyang region (in the north of modern Hubei province) in the centuries leading up to the Sui unification. Using the model of patron-client relations to characterize the interactions between local men and representatives of the southern court at Jiankang, the book emphasizes the way in which these interactions were shaped by personal ties and cultural and status differences. The result is a compelling explanation for the shifting, unstable, and violent nature of the political and military system of the southern dynasties. Offering a wider perspective which considers the social world beyond the capital elite, the book challenges earlier conceptions of medieval society as "aristocratic" and rooted in family lineage and officeholding.Andrew Chittick is E. Leslie Peter Associate Professor of East Asian Humanities at Eckerd College.

Patronage, Political --- Community life --- Social systems --- Garrisons --- Sociology --- System theory --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Political patronage --- Spoils system --- Civil service reform --- History --- Xiangyang Fu (China) --- Jiankang Fu (China) --- China --- Chien-kʻang fu (China) --- Jiangning Fu (China) --- Hsiang-yang fu (China) --- Xiangyang (China) --- Hsiang-yang (China) --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Geschichte 400-600 --- Geschichte 222-589 --- Clientelism, Political --- Patron-client politics --- Political clientelism --- Political sociology

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"'Fort Napier : Outpost of the British Colonial State in Natal, 1843-1914' is a social history of the British garrison at Fort Napier, from its establishment in 1843 to its departure for the Western Front at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The garrison remained at Fort Napier for seventy-one years, far longer than garrisons in other parts of the empire. Author Graham Dominy argues that because of the garrison's relative isolation and weakness, it remained 'temporary' in the eyes of influential British military personnel for decades, never manifesting as an effective instrument of imperial power. While the troops' presence ironically played a significant role in undermining the ethos and ideology of the imperial state, the cultural, political and economic methods of influence that the garrison used to compensate for their 'temporary' status have done much to shape modern South Africa"-- "Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler society. Graham Dominy's Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier reveals the unexamined but pivotal role of Fort Napier in the peacetime public dramas of the colony. Its triumphalist colonial-themed pageantry belied colonists's worries about their own vulnerability. As Dominy shows, the cultural, political, and economic methods used by the garrison compensated for this perceived weakness. Settler elites married their daughters to soldiers to create and preserve an English-speaking oligarchy. At the same time, garrison troops formed the backbone of a consumer market that allowed colonists to form banking and property interests that consolidated their control"--

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa. --- HISTORY / Military / General. --- Imperialism --- Soldiers --- Colonists --- British --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Garrisons --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Settlers (Colonists) --- Persons --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- Great Britain --- KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) --- Fort Napier (South Africa) --- Province of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) --- KwaZulu-Natal Province (South Africa) --- Natal (South Africa) --- Kwazulu (South Africa) --- Colonies --- History, Military. --- Colonization