David Omissi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Omissi |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Omissi |
| SIGNATURE | OMISSI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The limits of air substitution
This chapter examines the process through which the frontiers of substitution were defined. It considers the formation of local military units controlled by the Air Ministry or intended to work with the Royal Air Force (RAF). Relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry during the 1920s were soured by long and apparently petty disputes over the demarcation of departmental responsibility. The chapter measures the extent of tactical co-ope…
General editor’s introduction
The phrase 'Guardians of Empire' has a deliberately ambiguous ring.Guardians and wards have famously had relationships that run along the spectrum from the benevolent to the brutal.In the imperial setting, such terminology has sometimes been used to imply adulthood and tutelage according to some European notion of civilization or alleged economic development.From the standpoint of imperialists themselves, the concept of the guardian could be appl…
The geographical environment of air policing
This chapter considers air policing in terms of the interaction between political or military power and some societies on the margins of Empire. It also considers how far aircraft extended the arm of the state into isolated regions, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. The police bomber brought about a structural change in the relationship between state power and the marg…
Iraq and the survival of the RAF 1920-25
This chapter explores relationships between air control in Iraq and the survival of the Royal Air Force ( RAF) as an independent service. It also explores the relationships between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. The survival of the RAF was intimately involved with air policing in Iraq. Iraq is the eastern arm of the fertile crescent, and the birthplace of the earliest civilizations. The acceptance of the Devonshire …
Comparisons
This chapter compares the air policing methods practised by some other states with British techniques of colonial control. It presents the Rif war in Morocco and the Druze revolt in Syria. The chapter then deals with the Italian Empire in Africa, its chief concerns being the war of reconquest in Libya and the invasion of Abyssinia. During the conquest of Libya the Italians relied mainly upon Eritrean and Libyan infantry, supported by Fascist Mili…
Figures
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book examines the British coal industry through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families.The book considers the coal indust…
Index
The technical dimension
This chapter examines some aspects of the doctrine and equipment of the air force in relation to the geographical, strategic and tactical context of air policing. The details of the General Purpose specification and the process of selection clearly indicate the influence of geography and climate upon policing technology. Edward Ellington was fond of drawing similar parallels between air policing and European warfare, but for the most part the air…
Imperial politics and the role of force
The Amritsar massacre prompted an explicit assessment of the level of force appropriate to imperial policing. The need to defend the peaceful from the cruelties and exactions of the warlike was a traditional pretext for imperial expansion that was turned to novel use during the debates about air policing. The critics of air policing occasionally suggested that bombing might be regarded as brutal or unfair by tribesmen. The massive display of impe…
Note on transliteration and technical terms
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book examines the British coal industry through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families.The book considers the coal indust…
Indigenous responses to air policing
This chapter collates the primary evidence, compares and contrasts it with reactions to the machine gun, and offers a typology of response to air power. It examines various expectations of imperial officials and considers the responses of indigenous peoples. The supporters of air policing generally believed that air power would prove decisive against peoples who possessed no aircraft. The extent and success of indigenous adaptation to air power w…
General conclusion
The dominant concern of British defence policy in the few years after the Great War was to reduce military expenditure while at the same time retaining control of the territories. Air power changed the military relationship between the Protectorate tribes and the Aden government, and set in train a process of growing mutual dependence which culminated in the emergence of an independent South Yemeni state. The air force was not the only element in…
The extension of air control
The policing role of most political moment carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1920s was to maintain the power of the Arab kingdoms in Transjordan and Iraq. From 1919 to 1921 the British Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary waged an often bitter and sometimes brutal war against nationalist guerrillas in Ireland. The conflict aroused passionate feeling in Great Britain; when it became clear that neither military nor political mean…
The origins of air policing
The main concern of air policing was with the consolidation of imperial power. During the Great War the air service of each belligerent power had dramatically grown. The campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920 was exploited more than any other by the Air Ministry as an argument in favour of air policing. From 1915 aircraft took part in the policing of the Indian Frontier, and independent …
General introduction
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book examines the British coal industry through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families.The book considers the coal indust…
Air power and colonial control
This study examines the origins, character and effectiveness of air policing and its role not only in offering a cheaper means of "pacification", but also in securing the survival of the Royal Air Force as an independent service. The book identifies its significance in specific geographical contexts, its effects on the mentality of imperial administrators and air force personnel together with the reactions and responses of the people against whom…
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire Nile Green New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009 xvi + 217 pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-89845-4 (£52.25 hardback) The sixt
The Future of the Great Game
We already have several excellent studies of the ‘Great Game’—the competition between the British-Indian and Tsarist Empires for the control of Asia (particularly Central Asia), which was resumed, in a slightly different guise, after the Bolshevik Revolution. Fresh historical work on the subject has, however, gained renewed relevance following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent conflicts in (and over) this resource-rich region. S…
Europe Through Indian Eyes
THE cross-cultural encounters resulting from intra-imperial population movements have long been of interest to historians. There is an extensive historiography on trade, exploration and settlement; on the forced migrations of African slavery; on the diaspora of Indian indentured labourers and on the activities of Christian missionaries overseas.1 Much of this literature is concerned with European travel within the Empire or with indigenous people…
A British Tale of Indian and Foreign Service
India
This chapter’s main concern is how the South African War, and its aftermath, insinuated itself into Indian political and public life. The chapter will address four main questions: (1) What place did India, and the Indian Army, occupy in British strategy during the war? (2) How did the war feed into debates among nationally-minded Indians, and their British sympathizers, about India’s place in, and relationship to, the British Empire? (3) How was …
The Impact of the South African War
This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulati…
The Thin Black Line of Heroes
Indian Voices of the Great War
List of Maps and Plates Glossary Chronological Table Acknowledgements Abbreviations Indian Army Ranks and Organization Editorial Note Introduction The Letters: 1914-15 1916 1917 1918 Appendix 1: Order of Battle of the Indian Corps in France, 1914-15 Appendix 2: Composition of Indian Regiments in France Appendix 3: Report on Twelve Months' Working of the Indian Mail Censorship Further Reading Index
Shorter notice. The Birth of Military Aviation
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain, 1903-1914. Hugh Driver Get access D Omissi D Omissi University of Hull, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.239 Published: 01 February 2000
The Sepoy and the Raj
Guardians of empire
Guardians of empire' explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making ,the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the American Empire in the Pacific. While not neglecting the traditional concerns of the military histori…
Air power and colonial control
This study examines the origins, character and effectiveness of air policing and its role not only in offering a cheaper means of "pacification", but also in securing the survival of the Royal Air Force as an independent service. The book identifies its significance in specific geographical contexts, its effects on the mentality of imperial administrators and air force personnel together with the reactions and responses of the people against whom…
Martial Races’
Courage goes much by opinion; and many a man behaves as a hero or a coward, according as he considers he is expected to behave.' Henry Lawrence
Europe Through Indian Eyes
THE cross-cultural encounters resulting from intra-imperial population movements have long been of interest to historians. There is an extensive historiography on trade, exploration and settlement; on the forced migrations of African slavery; on the diaspora of Indian indentured labourers and on the activities of Christian missionaries overseas.1 Much of this literature is concerned with European travel within the Empire or with indigenous people…
Britain, the Assyrians and the Iraq Levies, 1919–1932∗
Air Power and Colonial Control
Britain, the Assyrians and the Iraq Levies, 1919–1932∗
Technology and repression
Martial Races’
Courage goes much by opinion; and many a man behaves as a hero or a coward, according as he considers he is expected to behave.' Henry Lawrence
The Mediterranean and the Middle East in British Global Strategy, 1935–39
Before spring 1939, the Mediterranean and Middle East did not take first priority in British plans for global war. The threats posed to London by the German air force and to Singapore by the Japanese fleet seemed more profound — if sometimes less urgent — than those generated by the intermittent crises in the Mediterranean. Yet in summer 1940, when Britain was fighting for its independence, the Prime Minister urged an offensive in North Africa an…
Air Power and Colonial Control
Air Power and Colonial Control
Air Power and Colonial Control
The First Air War, 1914-1918
Dissent
To say that a society functions is a truism; but to say that everything in a society functions is an absurdity. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Enlisting Strategies
The Indian Army has often been described as a mercenary force. Its peasant-soldiers left the land to escape poverty, and served in the ranks to supplement their meagre income from the soil. They enlisted and fought, so this argument runs, not to win honour or from selfless loyalty to the Raj, but for the tangible gains of pay, pensions and land. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
Conclusion
‘The Indian Empire is a despotism, and the real backbone of the despotism is the Army’, remarked George Orwell, reflecting upon the nature of imperial power in the early 1930s. ‘Given the Army, the officials and the business men can rub along safely enough even if they are fools. And most of them are fools. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.’ 1 These keywords were added by machi…
Indian Officers and Indianization
Our subjects, of whatever race and creed, shall be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified by their education, ability and integrity duly to discharge. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Recruiting Strategy
It is no use trying to persuade ourselves that the whole of the Native Army is capable of meeting an enemy from Central Asia or Europe; they are not, and nothing will ever make them. It is not a question of efficiency, but of courage and physique; in these two essential qualities the sepoys of Lower India are wanting. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the l…
Fighting Spirit
May God put victory into your grasp, and may the enemy never see your back – this is my constant prayer. Write your name in the list of heroes, that is the greatest honour. My lord, enter my name also, for I, too, long to join the strife. I am no coward.
Military Power and Colonial Rule
So long as the Army and the Native Chiefs are with us, all should go well.
The Sepoy and the Raj
Guardians of empire
Guardians of empire' explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making ,the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the American Empire in the Pacific. While not neglecting the traditional concerns of the military histori…
Indian Voices of the Great War
List of Maps and Plates Glossary Chronological Table Acknowledgements Abbreviations Indian Army Ranks and Organization Editorial Note Introduction The Letters: 1914-15 1916 1917 1918 Appendix 1: Order of Battle of the Indian Corps in France, 1914-15 Appendix 2: Composition of Indian Regiments in France Appendix 3: Report on Twelve Months' Working of the Indian Mail Censorship Further Reading Index
Shorter notice. The Birth of Military Aviation
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain, 1903-1914. Hugh Driver Get access D Omissi D Omissi University of Hull, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.239 Published: 01 February 2000
The Thin Black Line of Heroes
India
This chapter’s main concern is how the South African War, and its aftermath, insinuated itself into Indian political and public life. The chapter will address four main questions: (1) What place did India, and the Indian Army, occupy in British strategy during the war? (2) How did the war feed into debates among nationally-minded Indians, and their British sympathizers, about India’s place in, and relationship to, the British Empire? (3) How was …
The Impact of the South African War
This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulati…
A British Tale of Indian and Foreign Service
The Future of the Great Game
We already have several excellent studies of the ‘Great Game’—the competition between the British-Indian and Tsarist Empires for the control of Asia (particularly Central Asia), which was resumed, in a slightly different guise, after the Bolshevik Revolution. Fresh historical work on the subject has, however, gained renewed relevance following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent conflicts in (and over) this resource-rich region. S…
Europe Through Indian Eyes
THE cross-cultural encounters resulting from intra-imperial population movements have long been of interest to historians. There is an extensive historiography on trade, exploration and settlement; on the forced migrations of African slavery; on the diaspora of Indian indentured labourers and on the activities of Christian missionaries overseas.1 Much of this literature is concerned with European travel within the Empire or with indigenous people…
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