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French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914
In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy then went through three tumultuous phases. In the 1860s and 1870s it focused on building a new traditionally-structured fleet in which wooden-hulled battleships gave way to iron and steel ships with massive guns and armour. In the 1880s and 1890s this effort was disrupted by a vigorous contest between battleship sailors and advocates of fast steel cruisers...
Escorteur d’escadre Le Malin
Histoire de l'escorteur d'escadre Le malin. Il faisait partie, des navires les plus rapides du monde, pouvant atteindre et maintenir une vitesse de plus de 40 nœuds. Il s'est particulièrement illustré lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Marins français explorateurs
Depuis l'an 1500, pendant cinq siècles d'explorations, les marins français, sur les océans et dans leurs profondeurs, sur cette terre et dans les airs, ont reculé les limites du monde en domptant les leurs. Ces explorateurs étaient hommes d'action, leurs actes opiniâtres en témoignent. Ils étaient aussi peintres, savants, scientifiques, poètes, botanistes, médecins et astronomes, d'un appétit de connaissances insatiable et d'une curiosité exemplaire qu'ils ont toujours payés de leurs souffrances et parfois de leur vie alors que les trompettes de la renommée demeuraient trop souvent muettes. Car si certains sont passés à la postérité - Bougainville, Charcot, Cousteau... - d'autres, moins chanceux, ont injustement disparu de nos mémoires que ce livre se propose de raviver en quarante-quatre tableaux historiés où l'humour et l'admiration le disputent à l'exactitude.
The Pirate Myth
The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’. It materializes on the most provincial cinematic screen and the most acclaimed works of fiction. It casts its shadow over the liquid spatiality of the Net, where cyber-activists, file-sharers and a large part of the global youth are condemned as pirates, often embracing that definition with pride rather than resentment. Today, the pirate remains a powerful political icon, embodying at once the persistent nightmare of an anomic w...
International Literary Market Place
For book publishing contacts on a global scale, International Literary Market Place 2006 is your ticket to the people, companies, and resources at the heart of publishing in more than 180 countries world-wide-from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. With the flip of a page, you'll find completely up-to-date profiles for more than 16,500 book-related concerns around the globe, including... 10,500 publishers and literary agents 1,100 major booksellers and book clubs 1,500 major libraries and library associations... and thousands of other book-related concerns-such as trade organizations, distributors, dealers, literary associations, trade publications, book trade events, and other resources conveniently organized in a country-by-country format. Plus, ILMP 2006 includes two publisher indexes-Types of Publications Index and Subject Index-that offer access to publishers via some 140 headings. Additional coverage includes information on international literary prizes, copyright conventions, a yellow pages directory, and a worldwide calendar of events through 2011.
15 Geopolitical Lessons About The United States and Canada
The United States and Canada are two important powers in the West. Yet these two countries have proven to be little studied. Educational and practical, this book offers 15 thematic and documented fact sheets to provide an overview of the conflicts, issues and trends affecting North America. It constitutes an introductory and reference synthesis on the subject. * * * Ludovic MARIN is graduated with a Ph.D. about international relations history. He is a specialist of North America. He writes books in different matters (economy, geopolitics…).
The French Atlantic Triangle
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensiv...
Voyage to Newfoundland
In his translation of Thoulet's travelogue, Scott Jamieson remains faithful to the elegance and wit of the original. A Voyage to Newfoundland is full of intriguing detail about the landscape, local culture, origins of place names, flora, oceanography, and state of the French fishery. Several chapters are devoted to the fisheries and controversies over their exploitation - including ominous signs of early failure of the inshore cod fishery.
Verticales : le groupe militaire de haute montagne
Histoire, missions, rôle, quotidien du Groupe Miliaire de Haute-Montagne. « Copyright Electre »
