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The Black Sea "A History"

The Black Sea "A History"

King, Charles

Oxford University Press

The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important ...

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pvp.31,00 €

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea "Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empir"

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea "Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empir"

Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken

Oxford University Press

With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by ...

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pvp.23,00 €

The Great Ocean "Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush"

The Great Ocean "Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush"

Igler, David

Oxford University Press

The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapidly expanding trade, indigenous depopulation, and scientific investigations. With a particular focus on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s, this study uncovers world history in the coastal localities where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native ...

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The Civil War at Sea

The Civil War at Sea

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a masterful history of the Civil War navies both Union and Confederate and places them within the broader context of the emerging industrial age.

Symonds begins with an account of the dramatic pre-war revolution in ...

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pvp.19,50 €

The Age of Titans "The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies"

The Age of Titans "The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies"

Murray, William

Oxford University Press

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between the Hellenistic Age has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model of an Athenian ...

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pvp.49,00 €

Neptune "The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings"

Neptune "The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings"

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

D-Day June 6, 1944 is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation of Western Europe. Though it has been studied, discussed, and debated extensively, histories of ...

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pvp.31,00 €

Haida "A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Roya"

Haida "A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Roya"

Sclater, William

Oxford University Press

This action-packed, first-hand account chronicles the mission of Canada's most famous naval warship from her commissioning in 1943 to her return to Halifax for a refit in late 1944. The ship began her career on convoy duty from Britain to Murmansk, and the book includes a vivid description of the battle between the HMS Duke ...

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pvp.23,00 €

Great passenger ships 1930-1940

Great passenger ships 1930-1940

Miller, William H.

The History Press

The 1930s was perhaps the most glamorous and exciting decade for the great liners, highlighted by ferocious international shipbuilding rivalry: Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Rex and Conte Di Savoia, France's Normandie and Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Passengers travelled on some of the most popular liners of all time, such as L'Atlantique, Empress ...

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pvp.29,00 €

L'État dans ses colonies "Les administrateurs de l'Empire espagnol au XIXe si cle"

L'État dans ses colonies "Les administrateurs de l'Empire espagnol au XIXe si cle"

Varios autores

Casa de Velázquez

La phase des indépendances latino-américaines des années 1810-1825 fait penser à tort que l'Espagne était une puissance coloniale définitivement déchue. En effet, un empire ultramarin persiste, fort de près de 10 millions d'habitants à la fin du siècle et vivant sur un territoire (Cuba, Porto Rico, les Philippines et la Guinée équatoriale) égal en superficie ...

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pvp.29,00 €

Water World Book "Sail the World from the Comfort of Your Home"

Water World Book "Sail the World from the Comfort of Your Home"

Jones, Mike

Renowned marine and yachting photographer Mike Jones has travelled the globe in search of stunning waterscapes.
From crashing waves in Hawaii to frozen waterfalls in Iceland, this beautiful 136-page coffee table book explores an exciting array of destinations, both near and far.
The photographs have not been enhanced or manipulated, and are accompanied by Mike's ...

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pvp.50,00 €

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pvp.48,00 €