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  • Harbor Monopolies: The High-Stakes Navigation of Maritime Pilot Guilds

    Currents, Tugs, and the Elite Localized Cartels Controlling Global Shipping Chokepoints

    Who actually steers a multi-billion-dollar cargo ship into a crowded, treacherous commercial port? Surprisingly, it is almost never the captain. Instead, the vessel's command is temporarily surrendered to a highly specialized, intensely localized professional known as a maritime pilot. Because shifting sandbars, hidden wrecks, and complex tidal currents are too unpredictable for standard GPS, ... Read more

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  • Playing at War

    Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web ... Read more

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    Don Garcia of Navarre, or the Jealous Prince (UNABRIDGED)

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    Nothing can be more unlike The Pretentious Young Ladies or Sganarelle than Molière's Don Garcia of Navarre. The Théâtre du Palais-Royal had opened on the 20th January, 1661, with The Love-Tiff and Sganarelle, but as the young wife of Louis XIV., Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV., King of Spain, had only lately arrived, and as a taste for the Spanish drama appeared to spring up anew in France, ... Read more

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    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

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    Memory and Meaning

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