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The CIA World Factbook 2012 |
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 A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present 
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A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present |
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Ports of the World : Prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich c.1700-1870, Cindy McCreery Dr. Mcreery is currently Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctural Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has published articles on eighteenth-century British prints, including political and social caricatures and maritme engravings. Ports of the World is a survey of the golden age of print production as seen through examples from the collection of the National Maritime Museum. Prints are analyzed as commercial and art objects, rather than as just historical records of matters maritime. |
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History: Four-volume set $595.00 Excerpted from Booklist: Much more than the usual naval battles, warships, and nautical terms, this impressive and wide-ranging A-Z encyclopedia seeks "to be a reference work for the entire field of maritime history." Editor Hattendorf (president of the American Society for Oceanic History) heads an inspiring list of over 400 primarily international contributors in an attempt to integrate maritime history into a global economic, cultural, military, and political context. More than 900 entries are detailed and multidimensional. For example, Wars, maritime includes 11 subentries and covers 56 pages. This integrated approach would be separate and distinct in other encyclopedias. |
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The son of a well-to-do butcher, Defoe became a London tradesman and merchant. He was well educated and kept notebooks from an early age in which he wrote short fictions. He also daydreamed about adventurous voyages in the South Seas and was excited by the prospect of colonizing new (and utopian) lands. These ideas were to bear fruit in his great work, Robinson Crusoe 
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Daniel Defoe Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides to remain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of events with an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps the greatest account of a natural disaster ever written. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722. From the book: "It was about the Beginning of September 1664, that I, among the Rest of my Neighbours, heard in ordinary Discourse, that the Plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Roterdam, in the Year 1663, whether they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant among some Goods, which were brought home by their Turkey Fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not, from whence it come; but all agreed, it was come into Holland again . . . " | |||||||||
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Asia: China Jack Birns |
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The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900
Thomas Benjamin The Atlantic World: A History, 1400 - 1888 Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Reinterpreting History) A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 |
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Australia The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 
Robert Hughes Superb, erudite, colorful and brutal telling of the story of the development of Australia from England's infamous method of ridding herself of her "unwanted classes." Extraordinary detail of the movement of ship loads of prisoners across thousands of miles of open water to an unknown, seemingly desolate land. The author quotes hundreds of original sources, some of which are painful, other humorous. Includes tales of Australia's gold rush. Some illustrations. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987 |
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World  Frank Lambert American independence was secured from Britain on September 3, 1783. Within a year, the American merchant ship Betsey was captured by "Sallee Rovers," state-sponsored pirates operating out of the ports of Morocco. Algerian pirates quickly seized two more American ships. The boats were confiscated, their crews held captive, and ransom demanded of the fledging American government. The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's haltering steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert's sees in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation's shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world. Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe, The Barbary Wars proves America's earliest conflict with the Arabic world was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than any clash of cultures or religions. | |||||||||
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Europe: England Grant Macleod, John W.Cairns, Editors
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Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (Envisioning Cuba)
A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Havana, the legendary capital of Cuba, bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the introduction of European culture in the late fifteenth century to the development of the unique amalgam of these influences that is unmistakably Cuban. Author María Luisa Lobo Montalvo presents the architecture and history of Havana. Among the structures featured are the famed great forts such as Castillo del Morro and Castillo de la Punta, the city's oldest extant structures; an array of houses, from all periods of Havana's history and in all styles, simultaneously offering architectural and cultural history; and the great churches, including the Church of La Merced and the great baroque Havana Cathedral, and institutional structures, such as the magnificent Palace of the Captains General, showing the public face of Havana at its most resplendent. | ||||||||||
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Europe: Italy Venice, A Maritime Republic 
Frederic Chapin Lane The story of Venice from the first Venetians on. Excerpt - page 20: "... were other reasons, as will be explained, why the popular maritime tradition that was strong in Venice in the thirteenth century ..." "Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline."-Speculum. |
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Middle East The Political Economy of the Persian Gulf (Columbia/Hurst) Travels through Northern Persia: 1770-1774 |
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The War With Mexico: The Classic History of the Mexican-American War A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico |
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South America: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (New World in the Atlantic World) |
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Grimsby: The World's Greatest Fishing Fleet
Peter Chapman During the 19th century Grimsby fishing fleet greatly expanded, some streets were paved and lit by oil lamps. After 1838 gas light was used. In 1837 the first police force in Grimsby was formed. In 1854 a water company was formed to provide piped water (to those who could afford it). Also in the 1850s sewers were dug under Grimsby. A new Town Hall was built in 1863. |
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