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The Crimean War and its afterlife : (Record no. 244872)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number	2021035033
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9781108842228
Qualifying information	(hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN	9781108906951
Qualifying information	(ebook)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency	DLC
Language of cataloging	eng
Description conventions	rda
Transcribing agency	DLC
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code	pcc
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code	e-uk---
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	947.073810941 WI Kri
Edition number	23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Kriegel, Lara,
Dates associated with a name	1968-
Relator term	author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The Crimean War and its afterlife :
Remainder of title	making modern Britain /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Lara Kriegel, Indiana University.
Medium	PRINT
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title	Making modern Britain
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Projected publication date	2201
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture	Cambridge ;
--	New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer	Cambridge University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice	2022.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	347 pages :
Other physical details	illustrations ;
Dimensions	23 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term	text
Content type code	txt
Source	rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term	unmediated
Media type code	n
Source	rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term	volume
Carrier type code	nc
Source	rdacarrier
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	"Cecil Woodham-Smith was an unlikely historian. Even after writing two bestselling books, the acclaimed popular author remained surprised by her own success. The daughter of a prominent Anglo-Irish military family, Mrs. Woodham-Smith was a well-dressed housewife and erstwhile romance writer turned purveyor of Victorian history. Inspired by a dinner party conversation, she burst onto the scene in 1950 with a successful biography of Florence Nightingale. No one-hit wonder, she followed up three years later with The Reason Why, an account of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the tragic culmination of the Battle of Balaklava. The bestseller solidified Woodham-Smith's standing as a historian of national renown. Widely reviewed and broadly acclaimed, The Reason Why became required reading across a broad swath of British society. It was even named the Daily Mail's Book of the Month Selection in November 1953. The through line linking these two works by Woodham-Smith is the mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War, fought between 1853 and 1856, primarily on a Black Sea peninsula now occupied by the Russian Federation. This conflict of recondite and complex causes is best known in Britain for the mismanagement by the Army's hidebound leadership and for the innovations of the moment's resourceful new luminaries. The Army's blunder is exemplified in the Charge of the Light Brigade, a near-suicidal maneuver involving more than 600 cavalry soldiers. The occasion came to characterize a British affection for disaster and even failure, particularly when met with unflinching duty. The leading light of the War, on the other hand, was Florence Nightingale. Called "The Lady with the Lamp," Nightingale offered a fearless response to deaths by wartime illness, her can-do spirit coated in an angelic veneer. As she wrote about the Victorian past, Mrs. Woodham-Smith played her part in lodging a tragic blunder and a beloved heroine at the heart of national myth and national understanding. Together, Florence Nightingale and The Charge of the Light Brigade represent the antinomies of the Crimean War. They also capture two poles of British, and particularly English, self-conception. I imagined, when I began researching the Crimean conflict some years ago, that Mrs. Woodham-Smith would appear as a footnote in my study, her texts providing a well-regarded foundation in their archival research and lucid prose. But as I dove into military archives, I found myself pulled between letters sent from survivors in the wake of the Charge and plans for auctions of its regalia one hundred years on. And when I surveyed medical papers, my perusals of nineteenth-century newspapers lionizing Nightingale opened up into discoveries of transcripts for BBC radio shows produced a century later. My experience researching other aspects and other protagonists was very much the same. Database searches and archival meanderings had me shuttling between the Crimean War and its legacies, from the nineteenth century, through the twentieth century, and even to our present day. Time and again, my research revealed, countless Britons have found themselves absorbed by the mid-nineteenth century's War. As I came to apprehend this dynamic, Mrs. Woodham-Smith moved from footnote to text and from background to foreground"--
Assigning source	Provided by publisher.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Woodham Smith, Cecil,
Dates associated with a name	1896-1977.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Nightingale, Florence,
Dates associated with a name	1820-1910.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Seacole, Mary,
Dates associated with a name	1805-1881.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Crimean War, 1853-1856
General subdivision	Influence.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Crimean War, 1853-1856
General subdivision	Social aspects
Geographic subdivision	Great Britain.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Crimean War, 1853-1856
General subdivision	Literature and the war.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Crimean War, 1853-1856
General subdivision	Historiography.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name	Great Britain
General subdivision	History
Chronological subdivision	Victoria, 1837-1901.
Source of heading or term	LCSH
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books
Classification part	947.073810941
Item part	WI Kri

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Date last seen	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Price effective from	Koha item type	Lost status	Source of classification or shelving scheme	Materials specified (bound volume or other part)	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Withdrawn status	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price
04/04/2022		947.073810941 WI Kri	1000000172041	04/04/2022	Books		Dewey Decimal Classification	hbk.			Jamaican		National Library of Jamaica	National Library of Jamaica	Rare Books Floor	01/04/2022	Purchased	29500.00