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Pirate nests and the rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
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ISBN: 146961796X 9781469617961 9781469617954 1469617951 9781469617947 1469617943 9798890846860 9781469636047 1469636042 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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"Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns."--


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Brodie's bombs and bombings
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ISBN: 0398090947 9780398090944 9780398090937 Year: 2015 Publisher: Springfield, Illinois


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Maritime security cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea
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ISBN: 9004301046 9789004301047 9789004301030 9004301038 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill Nijhoff

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In Maritime Security Cooperation in the Guinea: Prospects and Challenges , Kamal-Deen Ali provides ground-breaking analyses of the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea and its implications for shipping, energy security, sustainable fisheries as well as national and regional security. The book juxtaposes the growing strategic importance of the Gulf of Guinea against the rising insecurity in the maritime domain, especially from piracy. Ali points out key gaps in prevailing regional and international approaches to maritime security cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea and sets out several suggestions for combating piracy as well as other maritime security threats while effectively enhancing maritime security cooperation in the region.


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The Wilmington Ten
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ISBN: 9781469624853 1469624850 9781469624846 1469624842 9781469624839 1469624834 1469666235 9798890840165 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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"In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. A powerful movement arose within North Carolina and beyond to demand their freedom, and after several witnesses admitted to perjury, a federal appeals court, also citing prosecutorial misconduct, overturned the convictions in 1980. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organizing"--

Kontrollierte Urbanität : Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik
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ISBN: 3839406765 3899426762 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Seit rund zwanzig Jahren sind Städte zu Laboren neoliberaler Kriminalpolitik avanciert. Das gilt insbesondere für die Metropolen Nordamerikas und Westeuropas, in denen neue staatliche Polizeistrategien erprobt, private Sicherheitsdienste beauftragt und elaborierte Kontroll- und Sicherheitstechnologien zum Einsatz gebracht werden. Erstmals fassen hier ausgewiesene Experten theoretische und empirische Ergebnisse zur sicherheitspolitischen Kontrolle des innerstädtischen Raums, von Sportveranstaltungen, neuen sozialen Bewegungen und sogenannten Randgruppen in vergleichender Perspektive zusammen. Besprochen in: Deutsches Architektenblatt, 12 (2007), Hanno Rauterberg UZ, 16.05.2008, Wolfgang Richter


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Mass uprisings in the USSR : protest and rebellion in the post-Stalin years
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ISBN: 1315702509 1317465040 9781317465058 1317465059 9781315702506 9780765606679 9780765606686 9781317465034 9781317465041 Year: 2015 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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