04157nam 2200697Ia 450 991078853690332120240118230603.00-7735-4082-21-283-62088-X97866139333310-7735-8761-610.1515/9780773587618(CKB)3360000000435496(EBL)3332496(SSID)ssj0000823906(PQKBManifestationID)11482326(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000823906(PQKBWorkID)10772150(PQKB)10633904(CEL)443447(OCoLC)818016124(CaBNVSL)slc00230927(Au-PeEL)EBL3332496(CaPaEBR)ebr10605518(CaONFJC)MIL393333(OCoLC)923238086(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/rrstd1(MiAaPQ)EBC3332496(DE-B1597)655057(DE-B1597)9780773587618(EXLCZ)99336000000043549620111104d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe collected writings[electronic resource] Volume IThe voyages /Pierre-Esprit Radisson, edited by Germaine WarkentinMotreal McGill-Queen's University Press20121 online resource (377 p.)0-7735-3975-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 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.Iroquois IndiansIndians of North AmericaCanadaNorthwest, CanadianHistoryNew FranceDiscovery and explorationIroquois Indians.Indians of North America971.01Radisson Pierre Espritca. 1636-1710.1493984Scull G. D(Gideon Delaplaine),1824-1889.1493985Champlain Society.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788536903321The collected writings3717271UNINA03127nam 2200673 450 991082866680332120230725025441.01-4411-2674-01-282-87663-597866128766391-4411-8792-8(CKB)2670000000055549(EBL)601926(OCoLC)676696370(SSID)ssj0000415535(PQKBManifestationID)12121364(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415535(PQKBWorkID)10430952(PQKB)11123547(MiAaPQ)EBC601926(MiAaPQ)EBC5309654(Au-PeEL)EBL5309654(CaPaEBR)ebr11518621(OCoLC)1027144046(MiAaPQ)EBC3003061(MiAaPQ)EBC6161911(Au-PeEL)EBL3003061(OCoLC)928191734(EXLCZ)99267000000005554920180314h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDecisive battles from Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm /Jonathon RileyLondon, England :Bloomsbury,2010.©20101 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84725-250-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 Storm12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of PersonsWhat 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 havBattlesMilitary history, ModernBattles.Military history, Modern.904.715.50bclRiley J. P(Jonathon P.),295110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828666803321Decisive battles4117455UNINA01404nam1 22002651i 450 UON0050361420231205105425.73220200630f1984 |0itac50 baitaIT|||| 1||||Literary criticismHenry James[edited by Leon Edel]New YorkThe Library of America ; Literary Classics of the United Statesc19842 v.21 cm001UON003242492001 ˆThe ‰Library of America210 New York Library of America ; Literary Classics of the United States22, 23001UON003300632001 Essays on literatureAmerican writers ; English writersHenry James210 New YorkThe Library of America ; Literary Classics of the United Statesc1984215 1484 p.21 cm1001UON004853692001 French writersOther European writers ; The prefaces to the New York editionHenry James210 New YorkThe Library of America ; Literary Classics of the United Statesc1984215 1408 p.21 cm2Letteratura americanaSaggiUONC077383FI809.3Storia, descrizione, studio critico di più di due letterature. 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