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UNINA9910790147203321 |
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Mohamed Mohamed Hassan <1959-> |
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Between caravan and sultan : the Bayruk of southern Morocco, a study in history and identity / / Mohamed Hassan Mohamed |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2012 |
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1-280-49593-6 |
9786613591166 |
90-04-18382-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 pages) |
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Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib |
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Group identity - Morocco |
Caravans - Morocco - History |
Slave trade - Morocco - History |
Morocco Civilization |
Morocco Ethnic relations |
Morocco Commerce History |
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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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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Bayruk and the Academy -- History, Identity and Textuality -- Antique Space, Upstart Qabila -- A Futuristc Past: Archeology of the Bayruk -- Caravan of the Bayruk -- Spoils of War, Bounties of Trade -- Conclusion: Casualties of Translation, Fetters of Textuality -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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This work presents a study of the history and identity of the Moroccan Bayruk family. The first part of the book gives an outline of the main referents in both the Bayruk vision of ‘self’, and academic discourses on Maghribian history: the dynasty, caravan and ‘tribe’. It identifies discrepancies in scholarly presentations of the Bayruk and traces them back to two overlapping issues of translation and conception. For the remainder of the book a variety of sources are used to highlight the role of textuality in the creation of the Bayruk image in academic discourse. As a result this book demonstrates how the Bayruk family can be used as a case-study to revise the existing interpretations of Maghribian history and modes of identification. |
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UNINA9910798399203321 |
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Kennedy Paul A. <1912-1993, > |
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Battlefield surgeon : life and death on the front lines of World War II / / Paul A. Kennedy ; edited by Christopher B. Kennedy ; foreword by Rick Atkinson ; afterword by John T. Greenwood |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - United States |
Surgeons - United States |
Surgery, Military - United States |
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Africa, North |
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Italy |
World War, 1939-1945 |
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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 and index. |
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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editor's Note; Introduction; 1 Operation Torch and North Africa; 2 Southern Italy and Monte Cassino; 3 Anzio and Rome; 4 Operation Dragoon and the Pursuit up the Valley of the Rhone; 5 Germany, the End of the War, and the Journey Home; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Medical Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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"In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife, for whom he kept detailed diaries to ease his unrelenting loneliness. In Battlefield Surgeon, Kennedy's son Christopher has edited his father's journals and provided historical |
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context to produce an invaluable personal chronicle. What emerges is a vivid record of the experiences of a medical officer in the European theater of operations in World War II. Kennedy participated in some of the fiercest action of the war, including Operation Avalanche, the attack on Anzio, and Operation Dragoon. He also arrived in Rome the day after the Allied troops, and entered the Dachau concentration camp two days after it was liberated. Despite the enormous success of the popular M*A*S*H franchise, there are still surprisingly few authentic accounts of military doctors and medical practice during wartime. As a young, inexperienced surgeon, Kennedy grappled with cases much more serious and complex than he had ever faced in civilian practice. Featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II historian Rick Atkinson and an afterword by U.S. Army medical historian John T. Greenwood, this remarkable firsthand account offers an essential perspective on the Second World War."--Provided by publisher. |
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