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UNINA9910458847403321 |
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Short John R |
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Cartographic encounters [[electronic resource] ] : indigenous peoples and the exploration of the new world / / John Rennie Short |
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London, : Reaktion Books, 2009 |
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1-282-79614-3 |
9786612796142 |
1-86189-749-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Cartography - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Indian cartography - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Indians of North America - First contact with Europeans - West (U.S.) |
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West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-162) and index. |
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pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Colonial cartographies -- pt. 3. Imperial cartographies -- pt. 4. Conclusions. |
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There's no excuse for getting lost these days-satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America was largely |
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UNINA9910163181903321 |
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Autore |
Thompson Dennis H |
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Discarded Victory - North Africa, 1940-1941 |
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San Francisco : , : Lucknow Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (31 pages) |
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Military art and science |
Strategy |
Military campaigns |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- MEDITERRANEAN THEATER, 1941-STRATEGIC OVERVIEW -- STRATEGIC SETTING -- CORRELATION OF FORCES -- THE WESTERN DESERT -- SIDI BARRANI TO BEDA FOMM -- STRATEGIC MISJUDGMENT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. |
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The Anglo-Italian campaign of 1940-41 resulted in one of the most lopsided operational victories of the entire Second World War. Strategic misjudgement at the highest levels of British political and military leadership would discard the opportunities won by its fighting forces in North Africa and commit them to a catastrophic intervention in Greece. In 1940, Italy fielded a numerically overwhelming, but technologically deficient, conscript military force on the continent of Africa. Italy's political leaders expected her 500, 000 strong North African army to quickly defeat the British troops stationed in the theater of operation. The British forces, though inferior in numbers, were well-trained regulars who possessed more superior weaponry than their Italian foes. In the brief, high intensity conflict waged in the North African deserts from December 1940 to February 1941, the British would annihilate an Italian army of 130, 000 soldiers. On the verge of complete victory in the North African theater, the British would commit an act of |
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extraordinary strategic misjudgement and divert their efforts to Greece in order to engage the Axis forces on the continent of Europe. The discarded early victory in North Africa would lead Britain to catastrophe in Greece, cost them the initiative in the war, and nearly led to their defeat in North Africa. |
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