Sentence examples for subaltern from inspiring English sources

He was to find, and if necessary kill, a German subaltern who had been torturing SAS men.

It is not that an officer pretends to be the same as his men: it is understood that a gulf of culture, upbringing and possibly wealth may lie between them (indeed, soldiers loathe any chinless subaltern who tries to be their best friend).But an officer must earn respect by being brave, competent, and bound by a powerful sense of duty.

Van Heutsz was sent to Aceh as a subaltern in 1873 and won fast promotions.

Most prominent among these were the postmodern, postcolonial, and subaltern critiques of Eurocentric conceptions of modernity and development.

Zhu Di's father, the Hongwu emperor, had rapidly risen from a poor orphan of peasant origin through stages as a mendicant Buddhist monk and then a subaltern in a popular rebellion against the Mongol rulers of the Yuan dynasty to become a virtually independent satrap in part of the rich eastern Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley, with his headquarters at Yingtian (Nanjing).

After graduating from the École Polytechnique, he took part as a subaltern in the siege of Paris (1870 71) and later served in Indochina, West Africa, and Madagascar.

Working within this general perspective, subaltern studies sought to rethink history from the perspective of the subaltern and, in this way, bring to light and assert the value of alternative experiences and ways.

This time, to secure French title against the counterclaims of Spain, he commissioned a nobleman, Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, to establish a colony in the lands discovered by Cartier, who was appointed Roberval's subaltern.

If there is something comical in the notion of a tweedy Englishman as a representative of the subaltern, Campbell takes the responsibility of embracing the museum's encyclopedic nature in great earnest.

There's a sense in which all such accounts can be considered counternarratives, or fragments of them — subaltern knowledge, if you like.

Burberry added to the Tielocken silhouette shoulder straps (for epaulets) and D-rings (for satchels to hold hand grenades, compasses, canteens, or whatever else the subaltern required).