Author: Institut d'Egypte (1798-1801)
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Memoirs Relative to Egypt
Author: Institut d'Egypte (1798-1801)
Publisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Publisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The Dawn of Guerrilla Warfare
Author: Benjamin J Swenson
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399053736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
While one military empire in Europe lay in ruins, another awakened in North America. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency undermining Napoleon’s grip on that state and ultimately hastening the destruction of the French Army in Europe. The advent of this novel “system” of warfare ushered in an era of military studies on the use of unconventional strategies in military campaigns and changed the modern rules of war. A generation later during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Winfield Scott and Henry Halleck used the knowledge from the Peninsular War to implement an innovative counterinsurgency program designed to conciliate Mexicans living in areas controlled by the U.S. Army, which set the standard informing a growing international consensus on the proper conduct for occupation. In this first transnational history of the Mexican-American War, historian Benjamin J. Swenson chronicles the emergence of guerrilla warfare in the Atlantic World. He demonstrates how the Napoleonic War in Spain informed the U.S. Army’s 1847 campaign in the heart of Mexico, romantic perceptions of the war among both Americans and Mexicans, the disparate resistance to invasion and occupation, foreign influence on the war from monarchists intent on bringing Mexico back into the European orbit, and the danger of disastrous imperial overreach exemplified by the French in Spain.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399053736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
While one military empire in Europe lay in ruins, another awakened in North America. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency undermining Napoleon’s grip on that state and ultimately hastening the destruction of the French Army in Europe. The advent of this novel “system” of warfare ushered in an era of military studies on the use of unconventional strategies in military campaigns and changed the modern rules of war. A generation later during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Winfield Scott and Henry Halleck used the knowledge from the Peninsular War to implement an innovative counterinsurgency program designed to conciliate Mexicans living in areas controlled by the U.S. Army, which set the standard informing a growing international consensus on the proper conduct for occupation. In this first transnational history of the Mexican-American War, historian Benjamin J. Swenson chronicles the emergence of guerrilla warfare in the Atlantic World. He demonstrates how the Napoleonic War in Spain informed the U.S. Army’s 1847 campaign in the heart of Mexico, romantic perceptions of the war among both Americans and Mexicans, the disparate resistance to invasion and occupation, foreign influence on the war from monarchists intent on bringing Mexico back into the European orbit, and the danger of disastrous imperial overreach exemplified by the French in Spain.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Imagined Empires
Author: Zeinab Abul-Magd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520956532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating local elites in the south of Egypt. Abul-Magd vividly narrates stories of sabotage, banditry, flight, and massive uprisings of peasants and laborers, to challenge myths of imperial competence. The book depicts forms of subaltern discontent against "imagined empires" that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. As the book deconstructs myths about early modern and modern world hegemons, it reveals that imperial modernity and its market economy altered existing systems of landownership, irrigation, and trade— leading to such destructive occurrences as the plague and cholera epidemics. The book also deconstructs myths in Egyptian historiography, highlighting the problems of a Cairo-centered idea of the Egyptian nation-state. The book covers the Ottoman, French, Muhammad Ali’s, and the British informal and formal empires. It alludes to the U.S. and its failed market economy in Upper Egypt, which partially resulted in Qina’s participation in the 2011 revolution. Imagined Empires is a timely addition to Middle Eastern and world history.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520956532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating local elites in the south of Egypt. Abul-Magd vividly narrates stories of sabotage, banditry, flight, and massive uprisings of peasants and laborers, to challenge myths of imperial competence. The book depicts forms of subaltern discontent against "imagined empires" that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. As the book deconstructs myths about early modern and modern world hegemons, it reveals that imperial modernity and its market economy altered existing systems of landownership, irrigation, and trade— leading to such destructive occurrences as the plague and cholera epidemics. The book also deconstructs myths in Egyptian historiography, highlighting the problems of a Cairo-centered idea of the Egyptian nation-state. The book covers the Ottoman, French, Muhammad Ali’s, and the British informal and formal empires. It alludes to the U.S. and its failed market economy in Upper Egypt, which partially resulted in Qina’s participation in the 2011 revolution. Imagined Empires is a timely addition to Middle Eastern and world history.
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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