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Strabon von Amaseia, Zeitgenosse der Kaiser Augustus und Tiberius, sah sich als stoischer Philosoph. Er verfasste eine umfangreiche Geschichtsdarstellung und eine Geographie. Erhalten hat sich lediglich sein geographisches Werk. Es ist umfangreich, inhaltlich komplex und vielfältig. Darin führt Strabon durch die ganze seinerzeit bekannte bewohnte Welt – von der Iberischen Halbinsel im Westen bis nach Indien im Osten, von Britannien im Norden bis nach Aithiopien im Süden. In den Mittelpunkt seiner Geographie stellt Strabon nicht etwa die Beschaffenheit der Erde, sondern den Menschen – es ist eine Kulturgeographie, die er verfasst hat. Dabei verstand er es, seine Darstellung interessant, lebendig und sogar unterhaltsam zu gestalten.
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The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Steamboats --- Regional studies --- History.
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The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Steamboats --- History. --- Regional studies
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Klimawandel und Klimadebatte, aber auch die wachsende geostrategische Bedeutung haben die Inselwelt Ozeaniens in den Focus der internationalen Politik gerückt. Das Handbuch vermittelt grundlegende Fakten und Informationen zur Außenpolitik der ozeanischen Staatenwelt und kann als erstes deutschsprachiges Buch für sich in Anspruch nehmen, umfassend den Themenbereich zu analysieren. International re-nommierte Fachwissenschaftler behandeln, alphabetisch geordnet, sämtliche unab-hängigen Staaten (Australien bis Vanuatu) sowie alle abhängigen Gebiete (Amerika-nisch-Samoa bis Wallis und Furuna). Ergänzt werden die Län¬derbeiträge durch Bei-träge zur APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Conference) und zum PIF (Pacific Islands Fo-rum) als prägende Regionalorganisationen. Jedem Beitrag vorangestellt sind eine Karte, relevante landesspezifische Angaben (offi-zieller Name, Hauptstadt, Fläche, Bevölkerung, Staatsform, Staatschef, Außenminister, Sprachen, Religionen, Währung, Mitgliedschaften in internationalen Organisationen) sowie historische Grunddaten. Eine Zeittafel zur Entdeckung und Geschichte Ozeaniens sowie ein Personen- und Sachregister ermöglichen einen schnellen Zugriff zu den gesuchten Informationen.
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The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Steamboats --- History. --- Regional studies
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Belgium --- nature --- nature reserves --- regional studies --- institutes
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As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar of the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing, which allowed him to make friends and business connections quickly in the thriving industrial city of Detroit. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. Supported by extensive research, Wilson's reminiscences are complemented by photographs from his own collection, which capture the spirit of the times.Through Sunnie Wilson's narrative, Detroit's glory comes alive, bringing back nights at the hopping Forest Club on Hastings Street, which hosted music greats like Nat King Cole and boasted the longest bar in Michigan, and sunny afternoons at Lake Idlewild, the largest black resort in the United States that attracted thousands every weekend from all over the Midwest. An influential insider's perspective, Toast of the Town fills a void in the documented history of Detroit's black and entertainment community from the 1920s to the present.
Wilson, Sunnie, --- Wilson, William Nathaniel, --- Regional studies
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politics --- sociology --- anthropology --- environmental studies --- regional studies
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regional studies --- environmental social sciences --- human geography
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