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The Atlantic in Global History 1500-2000

The Atlantic in Global History 1500-2000

The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both introduce the main themes of Atlantic history and expand the category of the Atlantic chronologically spatially and methodologically. Moving away from the nation-state focused model of Atlantic history this book emphasizes the comparisons among national experiences of the Atlantic. Meanwhile by extending beyond the early modern period and into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it presents the continued analytical value of the Atlantic paradigm. Each chapter explores the events that formed the nations and cultures of the Atlantic region and examines the Atlantic’s relationship with non-Atlantic communities. This second edition is updated with a new introduction which includes a section dedicated to developments in the field since the publication of the previous edition and a new guide for instructors with suggestions for classroom use. The volume’s broad global and chronological coverage makes it an ideal book for students and lecturers of Atlantic History. | The Atlantic in Global History 1500-2000

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Atlantic Lives A Comparative Approach to Early America

Atlantic Lives A Comparative Approach to Early America

Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources including travel narratives from West Africa the Caribbean and Latin America. The fully revised and expanded second edition goes into even greater depth in exploring the diverse roles and experiences of women Native Americans and Africans as well as the critical theme of emerging capitalism and New World slavery. New chapters also address captivity experiences intercultural religious encounters and interracial sexuality and marriage. With classroom-focused discussion questions and suggested additional readings accompanying each chapter Atlantic Lives provides students with a wide-ranging introduction to the many voices and identities that comprised the Atlantic World. | Atlantic Lives A Comparative Approach to Early America

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NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challenges This Whitehall Paper explores the renewed importance of the North Atlantic Ocean to NATO’s security through the lenses of the United States United Kingdom and Norway in particular. These three NATO members form the territorial rim around the North Atlantic and its peripheral seas. All are maritime nations that have historically taken prime responsibility for security in the region and together with Iceland they form the front line to a resurgent Russian maritime capability. These three counties with support from the rest of the northern region must take the lead to ensure that NATO and its partners devote sufficient resources to this aspect of NATO’s area of responsibility. | NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

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The World of Colonial America An Atlantic Handbook

The World of Colonial America An Atlantic Handbook

The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities cultures and colonies that comprised colonial America with a focus on the processes through which communities were created destroyed and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic experience. With contributions written by leading scholars from a variety of viewpoints the book explores key topics such as- The Spanish French and Dutch Atlantic empires - The role of the indigenous people as imperial allies trade partners and opponents of expansion- Puritanism Protestantism Catholicism and the role of religion in colonization - The importance of slavery in the development of the colonial economies- The evolution of core areas and their relationship to frontier zones- The emergence of the English imperial state as a hegemonic world power after 1688- Regional developments in colonial North America. Bringing together leading scholars in the field to explain the latest research on Colonial America and its place in the Atlantic World this is an important reference for all advanced students researchers and professionals working in the field of early American history or the age of empires. | The World of Colonial America An Atlantic Handbook

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To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

German U-boats known as iron coffins terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists spies and code-breakers naval officers and crews merchant sailors and civilians. | To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

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The Fraternal Atlantic 1770–1930 Race Revolution and Transnationalism in the Worlds of Freemasonry

The Fraternal Atlantic 1770–1930 Race Revolution and Transnationalism in the Worlds of Freemasonry

This book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history. Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism large-scale migrations and the socio-political upheavals of revolution. Ranging from confraternities to Masonic lodges to friendly societies fraternal organizations offered people opportunities to forge linkages across diverse and widely separated parts of the world. Using six case studies the contributors to this volume address multiple themes of fraternal organizations: their role in revolutionary movements; their intersections with the conflictive histories of racism slavery and anti-slavery; their appeal for diasporic groups throughout the Atlantic world such as revolutionary refugees European immigrants in North America and members of the Jewish diaspora; and the limits of fraternal brothering in addressing the challenges of modernity. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. | The Fraternal Atlantic 1770–1930 Race Revolution and Transnationalism in the Worlds of Freemasonry

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Reforming Senates Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present

Reforming Senates Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present

This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were influenced by the comparatively weak positions of small powers. Reformers responded to crises and constantly looked beyond borders and oceans for inspiration to keep their senates relevant. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9780429323119 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Reforming Senates Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present

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The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 Comparisons and Contrasts

The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 Comparisons and Contrasts

The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas. Charting the volatile relationship between the British and French this book examines the approaches that both empires took as they attempted to realise their ambitions of exploration conquest and settlement and highlights the similarities as well as the differences between them. Both empires faced slave revolts internal rebellion and revolution as well as frequent wars against one another which came to dominate the Atlantic world and which culminated in the eventual failure of both empires in North America: the French following the Seven Years War in 1763 and the British twenty years later in the war against American Independence. Delving into key themes such as exploration and settlement the creation of societies inequality and exploitation conflict and violence trade and slavery and featuring a range of documents to enable a deeper insight into the relationship between the colonising Europeans and Native Americans The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 is ideal for students of the Atlantic World early modern Britain and France and colonial America. | The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 Comparisons and Contrasts

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Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese Spanish German Dutch and Swedish materials from Europe Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits merchant correspondence Catholic sacramental records and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Essays cover the volume of the early South Atlantic slave trade; African and African-descended religious and cultural communities in Rio de Janeiro and the Spanish circum-Caribbean; Eurafrican trade alliances on the Gold Coast; and public participation in abolition in nineteenth-century Brazil. These essays change and enrich our understandings of slavery and its end in the Atlantic World. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition. | Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

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The Public and Atlantic Defense

The Public and Atlantic Defense

This book first published in 1985 analyses the polarization of popular opinion over NATO defence policies during the latter years of the Cold War. In many countries the domestic consensus that once supported Allied policies came close to collapsing and this study examines the question of the democratization of defence policy. It explores four themes for each of the Allied countries: views of the Soviet Union; deterrence; security; and the Allies. A rigorous and systematic analysis of the raw data allows for easy cross-national comparisons. | The Public and Atlantic Defense

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Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin Selected Contributions to the Thirteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions

Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin Selected Contributions to the Thirteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions

First published in 1997 this timely collection of papers takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining sustainable development in a wide range of countries such as Ireland Norway and Wales on the North Atlantic Margin. It features specialists in geography social anthropology tourism sociology regional studies business municipality studies health policy and the rural economy. The contributors argue that a free marketplace and natural-resource sustainability are not always incompatible for green policies to be successful. | Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin Selected Contributions to the Thirteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions

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Henry Redhead Yorke Colonial Radical Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World 1772-1813

Henry Redhead Yorke Colonial Radical Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World 1772-1813

This is a political cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. The most revolutionary radical in Britain between 1793-5 Yorke then recanted his radicalism and died a loyalist gentleman. This book raises important issues about the impact of outsider politics in England and the complexities of politicization and identity construction in the Atlantic World. It restores a forgotten black writer to his due place in history. | Henry Redhead Yorke Colonial Radical Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World 1772-1813

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The State Of The Alliance 19861987 North Atlantic Assembly Reports

The State Of The Alliance 19861987 North Atlantic Assembly Reports

Originally published in 1987. Leaders of NATO countries are continually faced with the need for highly accurate information on complex issues such as arms control nuclear strategy electronic warfare ABM compliance SDI terrorism economic cooperation East-West relations and diverging public opinion. To provide ongoing analysis of these issues the North Atlantic Assembly conducts extensive research fact-finding missions and interviews with high-level government experts. Committees then analyze the data and meet annually to present the results. The studies in this volume which were presented to the 1986 annual session of NATO legislators focus on the state of the Alliance. This collection provides a comprehensive evaluation of political developments within the Alliance probes fundamental controversies underlying Alliance security and sheds light on the aggregate of concerns surrounding the direction of arms control negotiations and the state of NATO's nuclear strategy. The book includes an appendix containing the policy recommendations that the Assembly has adopted and forwarded to the secretary general of NATO and heads of Alliance governments. | The State Of The Alliance 19861987 North Atlantic Assembly Reports

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The Western European Union At The Crossroads Between Trans-atlantic Solidarity And European Integration

The Western European Union At The Crossroads Between Trans-atlantic Solidarity And European Integration

This book investigates the institutional and operational development of the Western European Union (WEU) and its proposed enlargement. It assesses the motivations of its leading members and the progress made toward enhancing the WEU's role in the 1996-97 Intergovernmental Conference. | The Western European Union At The Crossroads Between Trans-atlantic Solidarity And European Integration

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Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World A Plea for Ego?

Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World A Plea for Ego?

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a central component of economic theory. Having in the twentieth century become one of the key-features of rational choice models and thus is seen as an idealized trait of human behavior self-interest has despite Albert O. Hirschman’s pivotal analysis of self-interest only marginally been historicized. A historicization(s) of self-interest however offers new insights into the concept by asking why when for what reason and in which contexts the notion was discussed or referred to how it was employed by contemporaries and how the different usages developed and changed over time. This helps us to appreciate the various transformations in the perception of the notion and also to explore how and in what ways different people at different times and in different regions reflected on or realized the act of considering what was in their best interest. The volume focuses on those different usages knowledges and practices concerned with self-interest in the modern Atlantic World from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries by using different approaches including political and economic theory actuarial science anthropology or the history of emotions. Offering a new perspective on a key component of Western capitalism this is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World. | Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World A Plea for Ego?

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European Destiny Atlantic Transformations Portuguese Foreign Policy Under the Second Republic 1979-1992

European Destiny Atlantic Transformations Portuguese Foreign Policy Under the Second Republic 1979-1992

With the fall of its centuries-old empire in 1974-1975 Portugal embarked on a transitional period that reconciled a long tradition of acting out national interests overseas with the need to integrate itself into Western Europe. The result has been a deemphasis on various Atlantic and colonial linkages and the forging of a new and highly successful European identity within the framework of the European Community. In European Destiny Atlantic Transformations Scott B. MacDonald offers a comprehensive analysis of Portugal's foreign policy and its highly successful venture in economic and political transformation. Although Portugal is firm in its committment to a European destiny it has not turned its back on relations with the United States and its former colonies hi Africa and Asia. MacDonald traces the evolution of U. S. Portuguese cooperation along economic cultural and military lines and shows how NATO has played a pivotal role in the process. This was most recently underscored when the U. S. made extensive use of the Azores during the Gulf War against Iraq. Likewise in its ties with the Lusophone countries formerly under its control - Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau S - o Tom and Princip - Portugal has sought to improve political relations and act as a peacemaker in regional conflicts such as those in East Timor Angola and Mozambique. The scope of MacDonald's work takes in issues posed to Portugal by new foreign policy concerns that range from the breakup of the Soviet Union to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in North Africa and the Middle East. He points out that in a world of rapidly shifting political and economic alignments Portugal provides a representative model of a relatively small nation that has undergone succesful economic reform while deepening its committment to its new democratic system. As such the Portuguese model is instructive for newly emerging democracies of Eastern Europe and Latin America. European Destiny Atlantic Transformations is an important addition to the literature on post-Cold War politics. It will be read by historians economists and foreign policy specialists. | European Destiny Atlantic Transformations Portuguese Foreign Policy Under the Second Republic 1979-1992

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Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude esteem land grants medical care pensions higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war nor combat? These questions have been answered in varying ways by the American people and their elected representatives since the Revolutionary War. Paid Patriotism? explores the genesis and growth of soldiers’ pensions throughout the nineteenth century the Bonus experiment after the First World War the passage and consequences of the GI Bill of Rights the growth of the nation’s system of veterans’ hospitals the evolution of veterans’ programs during the Cold War and Vietnam the post-9/11 GI Bill and contemporary scandals and reform efforts within the veterans’ bureaucracy from its promotion to a cabinet department to wrongdoing in the Veterans Health Administration. James T. Bennett examines the complex and politically charged history and heated present-day debate of what the late columnist William Safire called the “most sacred cow” in Washington: the veterans’ bureaucracy. In the end the United States and its citizens owe veterans a debt. But how has and how should that debt be honored—and at what cost? | Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

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Claimant or Client? A Social Worker's View of the Supplementary Benefits Commission

Claimant or Client? A Social Worker's View of the Supplementary Benefits Commission

Originally published in 1973 the aim of this book was to consider the relationship of a vital element in our social security system the Supplementary Benefits Commission to the personal social services in particular to social work. Notions of ‘entitlement’ and ‘rights’ in means-tested benefit schemes are examined in relation to those claimants including unsupported mothers and the so-called ‘voluntary unemployed’ who present particular difficulties to those administering the scheme. For many who claim supplementary benefit their only need is prompt efficient financial service. For a few their financial need is inextricably bound up with complex social and psychological difficulties. For such cases the civil servants who administer the British Supplementary Benefits scheme need skill beyond that normally expected of such persons and their relationship with the social workers who are or should be in touch with such claimants becomes crucial. The book considers some of the underlying ethical issues in particular the tension between equitable and individualised justice involved in the exercise of discretion. It describes the structure and organisation of the Supplementary Benefits scheme and analyses the roles of officials that bear on welfare. It also examines the current situation with regard to the selection and training of officials and discusses the attitudes of social workers to officials. This work drawing on the unique experience of the author as the first Social Work Adviser to the Supplementary Benefits Commission was the first study of its kind to be published in this country and would be of great value to all students and teachers of social work at the time as well as to a wide readership of social scientists. | Claimant or Client? A Social Worker's View of the Supplementary Benefits Commission

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Economic Benefits Of Improved Water Quality Public Perceptions Of Option And Preservation Values

Economic Benefits Of Improved Water Quality Public Perceptions Of Option And Preservation Values

Until recently there has been general agreement that improvement and preservation of water quality though costly provided economic and social benefits that outweighed the expense. Now however some observers are beginning to question whether the costs of the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act may actually exceed those benefits. This book provides answers to some of the questions that have been raised. The authors give measures of several important nonmarket benefits of improved water quality in Colorado's South Platte River Basin and empirically test and confirm the Weisbrod and Krutilla proposals that the general public may be willing to pay for preservation of environmental amenities and that option value and other preservation values must be added to recreation-use values to give an accurate picture of the social benefits of environmental preservation and restoration. Their findings include the fact that even those who do not expect to use the river basin for recreation are willing to pay for the maintenance of a natural ecosystem and to bequest clean water to future generations. The authors also arrive at average amounts households are willing to pay for improved water quality to enhance enjoyment of water-based recreation activities. They suggest that without such information it is highly unlikely that sufficient resources will be allocated for the preservation of unique environments and for the improvement of those being degraded. | Economic Benefits Of Improved Water Quality Public Perceptions Of Option And Preservation Values

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Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. Given its prominent opposition to recent US foreign policy such as the invasion of Iraq a volley of insults and caustic remarks reverberated between France and the US. French observers linked the Bush administration's policies to particular groups and regions within the US to a democratic deficit to a perceived threat of US collapse and to the need for a stronger Europe. By examining how the French media - newspapers television the internet and scholarly research - represented the election from a critical geopolitical perspective this book provides the first major in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media. | Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

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Steamship Nationalism Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

Steamship Nationalism Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural social and political history of the S. S. Imperator Vaterland and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamships launched by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) between 1912 and 1914 they do not enjoy the international fame of their British counterparts most notably the Titanic. Yet the Imperator-class liners were the largest most luxurious passenger vessels built before the First World War. In keeping with the often-overlooked history of its merchant marine as a whole they reveal much about Imperial Germany in its national and international dimensions. As products of business decisions shaped by global dynamics and the imperatives of international travel immigration and trade HAPAG’s giant liners bear witness to Germany’s involvement in the processes of globalization prior to 1914. Yet this book focuses not on their physical but on their cultural construction in a variety of contemporaneous media including the press and advertising on both sides of the Atlantic. At home they were presented to the public as symbolic of the nation’s achievements and ambitions in ways that emphasize the complex nature of German national identity at the time. Abroad they were often construed as floating national monuments and as such facilitated important encounters with Germany both virtual and real for the populations of Britain and America. Their overseas reception highlights the multi-faceted image of the European superpower that was constructed in the Anglo-American world in these years. More generally it is a pointed indicator of the complex relationship between Britain the United States and Imperial Germany. | Steamship Nationalism Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

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Transformational Journaling for Coaches Therapists and Clients A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing

Transformational Journaling for Coaches Therapists and Clients A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing

In Transformational Journaling for Coaches Therapists and Clients: A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing more than 50 coaches therapists and journaling experts from around the world share their best practices and explain in detail how they use journaling to improve their work with clients. This edited collection brings together the leading voices of the journaling world into one ground-breaking volume providing practical techniques and tools to use with clients. Applicable and accessible over 50 journaling luminaries share their experiences and insights across eight sections including the logic of journaling techniques and applications using journaling with clients journaling in groups journaling for mental health and wellness growth and healing spirituality creativity and more. Through theoretical and practical applications it illustrates the transformational process of journaling in helping clients grow heal and achieve their goals. This book is essential reading for coaches therapists and other mental health professionals as well as those interested in using personal writing for growth and self-awareness. | Transformational Journaling for Coaches Therapists and Clients A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing

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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions which he argues unfold visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism moralism and parochialism. But rather than simply opposing these flawed visions of the good life with his own set of alternative prescriptions Ochieng argues that it is critically important to step back and understand the stakes of the question. Those stakes he suggests are to be found only through a social ontology – a comprehensive and in-depth account of the political economic and cultural structures that mark the boundaries and limits of life in the twenty-first century. It is only in light of this social ontology that Ochieng then proffers an alternative normative account of the good society and the good life – which he spells out as emergent from ecological embeddedness; social entanglement; embodied encounter; and aesthetic engenderment. At once sweeping and rigorous incisive and subtle original and revisionary this book does more than just appeal to intellectuals and scholars across the humanities and social sciences – rather it opens up the academic disciplines to a whole new landscape of exploration into the biggest and most pressing questions animating the human experience. | Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

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Ferry Services in Europe

Ferry Services in Europe

Published in 1999 this work is mainly related to ferry services and operations in a number of marketplaces in Europe. Ferry services in the the Atlantic Arc to the West the Baltic Sea to the North and the Eastern Mediterranean to the Southeast of Europe are reviewed. Ferry markets in the Baltic area and the Mediterranean have been crucial markets in particular becaus of their continuing development - mostly after the post-communism changes in the East European countries and the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Developments in the Atlantic Arc and the effects of the Channel Tunnel on the ferry market in that area are also explained and conclusions and comment offered. | Ferry Services in Europe

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