Imperial Crossroads :: the Great Powers and the Persian Gulf.

For centuries the world's Great Powers, along with their fleets, armies, and intelligence services, have been drawn to the Persian Gulf region. Lying at the junction of three great continents - Asia, Europe, and Africa - and sitting athwart the oceanic trade routes that link the cities of the w...

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1. Verfasser: Macris, Jeffrey R.
Weitere Verfasser: Kelly, Saul
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Naval Institute Press, 2012.
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Zusammenfassung:For centuries the world's Great Powers, along with their fleets, armies, and intelligence services, have been drawn to the Persian Gulf region. Lying at the junction of three great continents - Asia, Europe, and Africa - and sitting athwart the oceanic trade routes that link the cities of the world, the Gulf, like a magnet, has pulled superpowers into the shallow waters and adjacent lands of the 600 mile long appendage of the Indian Ocean. An observer at Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf would alternately have watched pass in the 15th century the treasure ships of Chinese Admiral Zheng He, in t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (265 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781612510941
1612510949
1322355940
9781322355948

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