The British Army on Bloomsday
A Military Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Peter L. Fishback
Volume I, The British Army Reference for Ulysses Scholars
The book provides background material on the British Army for the reader of Ulysses. Included is a history of Ireland from the mid-seventeenth century to Bloomsday presented in a framework of Irish part-time soldiery (militia, volunteers, yeomanry). There is also a brief description and history of the British East India Company's armies. Brian Tweedy (Molly Bloom's father), began his military career with "John Company" and became a soldier of the Crown in 1858 when the government ended the Company's role as the British government's agent in India.
The paperback edition of The British Army Reference for Ulysses Scholars is in 7 X 10 inch (18 X 25 cm) format and contains 374 pages of text and monochrome graphics. The total page count, including front matter and index, is 391. The PDF edition conforms to the paperback's pagination but contains color graphics and stylized tables. The Kindle edition, which was generated from the paperback manuscript, has color graphics and endnotes but no index.
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