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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Abyssinia"”.
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L'imperialismo, come la lebbra, si cura con la morte": intesecting narratives in Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere
… full-length novel, Tempo di uccidere. Set in Abyssinia during the 1935-1936 Italo-Ethiopian War, it is a work that, notwithstanding its ostensibly "realist" subject matter, displays a palpable dissonance with the coeval cultural and literary landscape of post-war Italy, then dominated by the …
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One way to live : Orde Wingate and the adoption of ‘special forces’ tactics and strategies (1903-1944)
… his campaigns in Sudan, Mandatory Palestine, Abyssinia, and Burma. I ultimately find that while Wingate's unusual upbringing contributed to his propensity for creating new military units, it was ultimately his aggressive competition with other British officers for scarce honor and prestige …
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Sir Stafford Northcote: A Political Study to 1874
… children; in the rescue of European hostages in Abyssinia (and the care of that fallen emperor's orphaned son); in the transformation of the Hudson's Bay Company from territorial to retail power; and perhaps most important, in the settling of Anglo-American differences growing out of the U.S. …
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The Sheffield peace movement 1934-1940.
… outlooks which began with the War in Abyssinia, to the final split of the movement when its large <i>pacificist</i> majority accepted the necessity for war with Germany. The character of local peace movements, it is suggested, depended very much on the political, social and economic …