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Some political mythologies
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ISBN: 9024717639 9401013632 9401013616 9789401013611 9789401013635 9789024717637 Year: 1975 Publisher: The Hague

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AS Dr. Coen Tamse points out in the introductory essay specially written for this volume, what we call myths are all too often the errors and misconceptions of others. Time being short and human un­ derstanding imperfect, it is wise to suppose that posterity will convict us all of thinking and acting in some sort within mythological uni­ verses; only a dead myth is by common consent recognized as a false reading of reality. And yet, in our troubled century, we have witnessed the deliberate fabrication of mythologies, apart from the inheritance of earlier growths like those which still feed nationalism and anti­ Semitism. It almost looks as if mass democracies positively require neatly packaged and emotionally charged explanations of the social and political environment as a substitute for religion. At all events, the modern science of public relations has advanced far enough for cer­ tain regimes, or for those who seek to overthrow them, to make a calculated appeal to the vanities, anxieties and frustrations of ordinary people by offering highly simplified explanations of a baffling world, often in easily grasped pictorial or dramatic forms, whether the object is to condition obedience or incite to 'struggle'. The advent of the mass media is generally, if unfairly, taken to have opened limitless new op­ portunities for the manipulation of our thought-processes, even below the threshold of consciousness.


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Metropolis, dominion and province
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ISBN: 9024712238 9401178690 9401178674 Year: 1971 Publisher: The Hague

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The new Cambridge modern history.
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ISBN: 0521075246 9780521075244 9781139055826 9780521293969 Year: 1970 Volume: 6 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Corsairs and navies, 1660-1760
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ISBN: 1472599802 1282024396 9786612024399 0826446582 9780826446589 9781472599803 9781282024397 6612024399 090762877X 9780907628774 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Ronceverte, WV, U.S.A. Hambledon Press

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Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design "that might be both honourable and advantageous", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown's usual one-fifth interest in such "preis de vaisseaux", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, headed by courtiers, financiers, naval contractors and officers of both pen and sword.' According to Pointis, peace rumours restricted the flow of advances and the expedition, nearly 4,000 strong when it sailed out of Brest, was weaker than he had planned, especially if it should prove difficult to use the ships' crews ashore

Corsairs and navies, 1660-1760
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ISBN: 090762877X Year: 1987 Publisher: London Hambledon

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The manning of the Royal Navy : selected public pamphlets 1693-1873
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Year: 1976 Publisher: London Navy Records Society

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The rise of Great Britain and Russia. 6 : 1688-1715/25
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,


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The new Cambridge modern history.
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ISBN: 1139055828 Year: 1970 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The rise of Great Britain and Russia is the focus of this particular volume of The New Cambridge Modern History.


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A select list of works on Europe and Europe overseas, 1715-1815
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Year: 1956 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Britain and the Netherlands in Europe and Asia
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Year: 1968 Publisher: London Macmillan

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