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Echoes of Success: Identity and the Highland Regiments

By Ian Stuart Kelly

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004292187, 9789004292185
ISSN
1385-7827
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4897327 bytes)
Series
History of Warfare 104
Pages
xii+259\273
Topic
History\\Military History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-01-16 18:57:43
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Description

In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly uses new information about late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions to provide new insights into how groups identify themselves, and pass that sense on to successive generations of soldiers. Kelly applies concepts from organisational theory (the study of how organisations function) to demonstrate how soldiers’ experiences create a ‘blueprint’ of expected behaviours and thought patterns that contribute to their battalion’s continued success. This model manages the interplay between public perception and actual life experiences more effectively than current approaches to understanding identity. Also, Kelly’s primary research offers a more certain description of soldiers’ life, faith, education, and discipline than has previously been available.

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