Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger. Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire, as both a military and a colonizing force on the islands and coastlines of the sea. Robert Holland traces the fascinating story of that presence, from its legacies in culture, language, and law to the Mediterranean's own influence on Britain. Evoking the conflicts and contrasts between British and local societies caught up in dramatic events, as well as their mutual resilience under pressure, Blue-Water Empire charts with vigor, flair, and clarity the British experience in the Mediterranean in the age of empire.

Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean Since 1800

History

Holland, Robert

Europe

Penguin

This is the first in-depth reconstruction of a major British decolonization based fully on original documentation. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the response of policy makers to the challenge of 'terrorism' overseas after 1945, the liquidation of the British Empire, the breakdown of ethnic co-existence under intense pressure, and the effects of regional destabilization on the wider international system.

Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959

Clarendon Press

The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960

The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s. This book explores the power struggles which followed, focusing in particular on Britain's role in the expansion of Greece as an independent nation-state. The book traces events from these nineteenth-century origins right up to the travails of British colonial rule in Cyprus and its ending in 1960.

Markides, Diana

Oxford University Press

An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as “Magick Land” by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world’s leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron’s poetry to Damien Hirst’s installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Yale University Press

Travel

Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires After 1945

Bringing together for the first time leading historians of European decolonization, this book is a landmark in the comparative analysis of the fall of the European empires, viewed both as a problematic of European policy-making and as a formative experience in the development of new states.

World

Routledge

Here is the truth about the concerted effort of the Big Government, Big Education and Big Business establishments to restructure America's schools into centers of groupthink and conformity to programmed "outcomes".

Not With My Child, You Don't: A Citizens' Guide to Eradicating OBE and Restoring Education

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Chesapeake Capital Services

A novel of adventure and mystery set in the wilderness of northern Maine during the time the river drives were ending and the roads were coming in. Jared MacBurron, 16, is the last school age kid in the village of Bear River, a way station for the loggin crews moving up and down the river. From time to time there are prize fights among the loggers and Jared has taught himself to box by watching the fights from the loft of the big barn where they are held. He learns a gret deal more when an old has-been professional fighter turns up and challenges for the Bear River Championship.This story is rich with the stories of the wilderness, and includes an encounter with a rogue bear and a sasquatch.

The Last Champion (Books for Boys)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Frost Hollow Pubns

Eddie Phelps is a thirteen-year-old hockey player with no slap shot and then one day, walking home from school he takes a shot at a horse chestunut lying on the sidewalk and drives it through a classmate's window. That begins a strange transformation as Eddie discovers that he is descended from a long line of Druid healers. He discovers powers he never knew he had. He discovers that he can hear what the trees are saying. He discovers that he has the power to heal even the most desperate of injuries and diseases. In the process he also discovers that having such extraordinary powers may not be very easy to live with, no matter how great a slap shot you develop.

The Voice of the Tree

Children's Books

Benson, Robert J.

Mysteries & Detectives

Frost Hollow Publishing, LLC

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