Victorian Military Campaigns

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Printed in Great Britain. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers End papers have photograph of ""A column of cow-guns on the veldt."". Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted but for a smudge at top of page 153 (does not effect text.) Contains two sections of 8 leaves/16 pages each of black & white photographs. Dust jacket good with shelf wear, edge wear, and age toning to white portions. Not price clipped. Each campaign is written by a different contributor and concludes with a section of references. * From the jacket flap, ""This volume has been written in the conviction that much of interest remains to be said about the small campaigns and expeditions from which the British Empire was seldom free during Victoria's long reign. Certainly there have been many detailed accounts of these minor wars, notably in Sir John Forescue's monumental ""History of the British Army,"" but none of them was definitive. The range of sources consulted was often narrow; imperialist assumptions imposed their own limitations; and, above all, the professional military chronicler was seldom concerned to place the wars in their political context.. . . .[ This volume] comprises a detailed study from original sources of seven British campaigns undertaken between 1845 and 1899, While each contributor has been free to develop the aspects of his campaign which seemed to him most interesting or significant, they all have been primarily concerned to put the military events into the broad political picture. How and why did particular wars occur, and how firmly were they controlled politically? What degree of military competence was shown in their execution, and how effective were they as ""instruments of policy""? These are some of the questions the contributors attempt to ask."" See photo of rear dust jacket for list of the campaigns, the year they took place, and the contributor who writes of it.