Europe and the world, 1650-1830

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Michel Rodigneaux

L'activité frénétique des corsaires au large des côtes guadeloupéennes au temps de Victor Hugues a pu évoquer à divers titres celles des terribles pirates barbaresques qui sévissaient en Méditerranée à la même époque. C'est cette aventure méconnue que l'auteur nous fait revivre ici. Il décortique ce qu'il faut bien appeler une "économie corsaire", pendant la Révolution et l'Empire en Guadeloupe. La grande et la petite histoire se rejoignent ainsi en une épopée héroïque.

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Jeffrey Grey

A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

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Elsbeth Locher-Scholten

"This book deals with the ambiguous relationship between Indonesian and European women and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies (or Dutch East Indies) between 1900 and 1942. How did women of different racial backgrounds relate to each other and to 'the colonial project'? How did the colonial state address women's issues? What were the constructions of gender which dominated the discourse on these issues?" "The content is based on new data from a variety of sources, such as censuses, colonial archives, rural labour reports, household manuals, children's fiction and Indonesian press surveys. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to ongoing debates within the history of colonialism. The book thus provides the reader with new insights in the social dynamics of colonial society and politics in relation to gender."--Jacket.

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Harry Sidebottom

AD256 - a battle-bloodied Ballista returns to the Roman imperial palace at Antioch from the now ravaged city of Arete. Once a symbol of Rome's indomitable power - now fallen to the mercy of its Persian invaders.