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Sacred Vessels The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy

Sacred Vessels The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy
Robert L O'connell, "Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy"
English | ISBN: 036728653X | 2019 | 409 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Writing critically about something you have come to regard with affection must provoke mixed emotions. As I learned more and more about the modern battleship's shortcomings, I found myself, like so many before me, falling under its spell. I have traveled hundreds of miles to visit these wonderful ships, reverently preserved like a necklace of talismans around our nation's coasts. I have stood in awe under the great guns, wondering what it must have been like to hear them fire. Perhaps it is true that their sound and fury signified very little in terms of actual destructive power. But most people thought they did, and that was and still is important. Besides, for the most part, we were proud of those ships. Now we live in a time of weapons so terrible that we must actually hide them-beneath the ground and below the surface of the sea. But, like battleships, they keep the peace precisely because of what others think they can do. All things being equal, who would not prefer the dreadnoughts?

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Royals on tour Politics, pageantry and colonialism

Royals on tour Politics, pageantry and colonialism
Robert Aldrich, "Royals on tour: Politics, pageantry and colonialism "
English | ISBN: 1526109379 | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Royals on tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. Such tours projected imperial dominion and asserted the status of non-European dynasties. The celebrity of royals, the increased facility of travel, and the interest of public and press made tours key encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans. The reception visitors received illustrate the dynamics of empire and international relations. Ceremonies, speeches and meetings formed part of the popular culture of empire and monarchy. Mixed in with pageantry and protocol were profound questions about the role of monarchs, imperial governance, relationships between metropolitan and overseas elites, and evolving expressions of nationalism.

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Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations

Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations
Dimitris Bouris, "Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations "
English | ISBN: 0367330768 | 2021 | 476 pages | PDF | 51 MB
EU-Middle East relations are multifaceted, varied and complex, shaped by historical, political, economic, migratory, social and cultural dynamics. Covering these relations from a broad perspective that captures continuities, ruptures and entanglements, this handbook provides a clearer understanding of trends, thus contributing to a range of different turns in international relations.

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Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine
Piotr Naskrecki, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, "Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0226568709 | 384 pages | PDF | 60.7 MB
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their spawning grounds, as they've done, nearly unchanged, for more than 440 million years.

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Relational Intelligence The People Skills You Need for the Life of Purpose You Want

Relational Intelligence The People Skills You Need for the Life of Purpose You Want
Dharius Daniels, "Relational Intelligence: The People Skills You Need for the Life of Purpose You Want"
English | ISBN: 0310357829 | 2020 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 553 KB
Relational Intelligence is your action plan for getting smart about who you surround yourself with. Using Jesus's relational framework for choosing the twelve disciples, this book gives you the tools you need to define, discern, align, assess, and activate your relationships to unlock your greatest potential.

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Rediasporization African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

Rediasporization African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh
Gillian Richards-Greaves, "Rediasporization: African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh"
English | ISBN: 1496831160 | 2020 | 226 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Rediasporization: African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh examines how African-Guyanese in New York City participate in the Come to My Kwe-Kwe ritual to facilitate rediasporization, that is, the creation of a newer diaspora from an existing one. Since the fall of 2005, African-Guyanese in New York City have celebrated Come to My Kwe-Kwe (more recently called Kwe-Kwe Night) on the Friday evening before Labor Day. Come to My Kwe-Kwe is a reenactment of a uniquely African-Guyanese pre-wedding ritual called

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