Across The Green Sea

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Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean – 'the green sea,' as it was known – underwent vast transformation and an era of commercial and cultural exchange blossomed. In Across the Green Sea , Sanjay Subrahmanyam recounts the history of this ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints. He sets the scene with the withdrawal of China's Ming Dynasty and explores how the western Indian Ocean was transformed by the growth and increasing prominence of the Ottoman Empire and the continued spread of Islam into East Africa. He examines how several cities, including Mecca and the vital Indian port of Surat, grew and changed during these centuries, when various powers interacted, until famines and other disturbances upended the region in the seventeenth century. Rather than proposing an artificial model of a dominant centre and its dominated peripheries, Across the Green Sea reveals the complexity of a truly dynamic and polycentric system through the use of connected histories, a method which Subrahmanyam himself has pioneered.

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Genre : History
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Saqi Books
Release : 2024-07-02
File : 243 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780863569562


Current Opinion

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Genre : Literature
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Release : 1895
File : 588 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106019921235


Natural Gas Hydrates

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Hardcover plus CD

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Genre : Science
Author : Timothy S. Collett
Publisher : AAPG
Release : 2010-01-14
File : 710 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780891813705


The Spectator

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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

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Genre : English literature
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Release : 1894
File : 1462 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105007428498


Atlantic City

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Few American resort cities rival the romantic slpendor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Since 1854, this island has evoked dreams and memories of days lived amid white sand beaches, a vibrant boardwalk, exciting amusement piers, and grand hotels. For decades it was a place where teenagers fell in love, returned for honeymoons, and later brought families. Atlantic Cities is a nostalgic return to the pre-casino days that now seem relatively innocent. The founders believed that the city would become a grand health resort, featuring healthful sea breezes and balmy days. Nearly deserted when the first train loaded with day-trippers arrived on July 1, 1854, Atlantic City, by 1900, was known throughout much of the world as "The Queen of American Resorts." With huge hotels lining the Boardwalk and unique amusement piers jutting into the ocean, the city thrived on what one promoter called "ocean, emotion, and constant promotion." Those were the days when bathers frolicked on the beach in drab clothing, when the Boardwalk was alive with throngs of happy visitors, and Miss America actually strolled the Boardwalk amid the crowds. Images like those, and of course of the annual Easter Parade, one of the East Coast's premier social events, are among the nearly two hundred photographs carefully selected for this long-awaited book.

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Genre : History
Author : John T. Cunningham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2000
File : 130 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0738504262


The English Illustrated Magazine

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Release : 1886
File : 840 Pages
ISBN-13 : EHC:148101075160Y


Gothiniad

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Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.

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Genre : Poetry
Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2017-10
File : 628 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781387266562


Solariad

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Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.

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Genre : Poetry
Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2017-10-15
File : 482 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781387297337


Red Over Green

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Red Over Green, first published in 1956, is a novel set in the period of 1938-1940, and is based, in part, on author Robert Henriques’ own experiences with the British Commandos, a special forces unit formed in 1940. Much of the novel, however, concern main character Barry Maurice’s love for his wife who has an incurable disease, and an his love for a young woman who Barry has helped get a divorce from her husband. Other portions of the book describe the recruiting, waiting, leaves in London, training, and planning, and finally the actual Commando raid and aftermath in a military hospital. Overall, a realistic look at human frailties, the unpreparedness of England for the war, the lack of trained personnel, and how a Commando operation was planned and executed.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert D. Q. Henriques
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Release : 2020-02-25
File : 481 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781839742576


Our Indifferent Universe

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"Our Indifferent Universe" presents 903 poems written 2015-2017 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be a human in our indifferent universe.

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Genre : Poetry
Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2019-01-25
File : 366 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780359384709