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UNINA9910787241403321 |
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Autore |
Brunet Jean-Paul <1938-> |
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Gaston Monnerville (1897-1991) : un destin d'exception / / Jean-Paul Brunet, Professeur émérite à l'université Paris-IV |
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Matoury (Guyane), [France] : , : Ibis Rouge Éditions, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Collection Espace outre-mer Gaston Monnerville (1897-1991) |
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Statesmen - French Guiana |
Statesmen - France |
France Politics and government 1945- |
French Guiana Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Un homme au destin exceptionnel, tel fut Gaston Monnerville, par sa spectaculaire ascension sociale, par l'exemple d'intégration républicaine qu'il représente, par le modèle de vie qu'il nous offre. Descendant d'esclaves des Antilles, petit boursier de Cayenne, Monnerville devint un avocat à l'éloquence éclatante, défenseur des victimes du racisme, radical-socialiste épris des valeurs de liberté, d'égalité et de fraternité. Député de la Guyane puis secrétaire d'État aux Colonies avant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, il s'implanta ensuite dans le Lot et, pendant près de vingt-deux ans, présida le Conseil de la République, puis le Sénat. En octobre 1962, Gaston Monnerville s'insurgea contre la décision du général de Gaulle de soumettre à référendum un projet de loi instituant l'élection du président de la République au suffrage universel, jugeant la procédure contraire à la constitution. C'est la raison pour laquelle il taxa de "forfaiture"--Le mot fit mouche - le Premier ministre Georges Pompidou. De Gaulle ne lui pardonnera pas cet affront, et durant plus de six années, Monnerville dut effectuer sa "traversée du désert". L'avenir et sa "justice immanente" devaient finalement lui donner raison"--Back cover. |
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UNINA9910781870103321 |
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Autore |
Eames Steven |
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Rustic Warriors : Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748 / / Steven Eames |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Warfare and Culture ; ; 10 |
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New Englanders - Warfare |
New England History, Military |
Soldiers New England History |
New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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. 245-301) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New England Provincial Soldier -- 1. The Initiation of War and the New England Military System -- 2. Garrisons -- 3. Provincial Forts -- 4. Scouts -- 5. Expeditions -- 6. Stores of War -- 7. Recruiting -- 8. Officers -- 9. Battle Drill and Fighting Spirit -- 10. Battle Experience -- 11. The Wounds of War -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them “a gathering from the scum of the worst people.” Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers’ battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the |
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particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Dummer’s War, and King George’s War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors, he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war, as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial, French, and Native American approaches to war. |
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