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UNINA9910788536903321 |
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Radisson Pierre Esprit <ca. 1636-1710.> |
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The collected writings [[electronic resource] ] . Volume I The voyages / / Pierre-Esprit Radisson, edited by Germaine Warkentin |
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Motreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012 |
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0-7735-4082-2 |
1-283-62088-X |
9786613933331 |
0-7735-8761-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ScullG. D <1824-1889.> (Gideon Delaplaine) |
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Disciplina |
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Iroquois Indians |
Indians of North America - Canada |
Northwest, Canadian History |
New France Discovery and exploration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Voyages (1668) -- I To the Mohawk, 1652-53 -- II To the Onondaga, 1657-58 165 -- III To Lake Michigan, 1654-56 -- IV To Lake Superior and James Bay, 1659-60 -- Appendix: Radisson in an Aboriginal World / Heidi Bohaker -- Glossary -- Textual Emendations. |
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Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug-of-war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before James II. Finally, he was a retired "sea captain" trying to provide for his children, and despite the pension he had fought for, the "decay'd Gentleman" described in his burial record. Radisson's writings, characterized by hubris and contradiction, provoke many questions. Was he a semi-literate woodsman? Are his accounts of Native life ethnographically reliable? Can he be trusted to tell the truth about himself? How important were |
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his explorations? In this first volume of Radisson's complete writings, Germaine Warkentin introduces the life, travels, motivations, and work of this compelling and complicated figure while providing a comprehensive and authoritative edition of his masterpiece - The Voyages. In the four accounts of his travels to the far interior of the Great Lakes and James Bay, Radisson vibrantly depicts his life among the Mohawk, his encounters and relationships with Native peoples, Jesuits, English, French, and Dutch colonists and traders, as well as the hazards of the capricious politics of the New World and the thrilling surprise of discoveries. Striking a superb balance between accessible writing and comprehensive scholarship, this new edition of Radisson's Voyages is indispensable, definitive, and reasserts the important roles that Radisson played in seventeenth-century North American rivalries. |
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UNINA9910828666803321 |
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Riley J. P (Jonathon P.) |
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Decisive battles : from Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm / / Jonathon Riley |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-4411-2674-0 |
1-282-87663-5 |
9786612876639 |
1-4411-8792-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Battles |
Military history, Modern |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 What Is Decisive?; 2 Yorktown, 1781: The World Turned Upside Down; 3 Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo, 1815: The Hundred Days; 4 Gettysburg and |
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the Siege of Vicksburg, 1863: Confederate High Tide; 5 Sedan, 1870: Birth and Death of Empire; 6 Third Gaza, 1917: Strategic Diversion, Tactical Deception; 7 Amiens, 1918: The Black Day of the German Army; 8 The Arakan, Imphal and Kohima, 1944: Smashing the Myth; 9 The Ardennes, 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble; 10 Dien Bien Phu, 1954: Wind of Change; 11 Kuwait, 1990-91: Desert Storm |
12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of Persons |
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What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Each battle included is a turning point, the outcome of which has changed the face of history. The battles at Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo in 1815 concluded more than twenty years of war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and instituted alliances that dominated Europe until 1860. The Ardennes in 1944 was decisive because Hitler threw away the last army he had which could hav |
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