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UNINA9910452493903321 |
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Titolo |
The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power / / edited by Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou, Dorothy J. Thompson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-23821-8 |
1-108-43666-8 |
1-107-34933-8 |
1-139-51964-6 |
1-107-34589-8 |
1-107-34839-0 |
1-107-34214-7 |
1-107-34464-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Sea-power - Egypt - History - To 1500 |
Piracy - Egypt - History - To 1500 |
Egypt History, Naval |
Mediterranean Sea History |
Red Sea History |
Nile River History |
Egypt Relations Greece Rhodes |
Rhodes (Greece) Relations Egypt |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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In memoriam F.W. Walbank / Christian Habicht -- ; 1. Introduction / Dorothy J. Thompson and Kostas Buraselis -- ; 2. The Ptolemaic League of Islanders / Andrew Meadows -- ; 3. Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon: champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy / Hans Hauben -- ; 4. Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom : the commercial infrastructure / Vincent Gabrielsen -- ; 5. Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power / Andrew Erskine -- ; 6. Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power / |
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Kostas Buraselis -- ; 7. Waterborne recruits : the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt / Mary Stefanou -- ; 8. Our academic visitor is missing : Posidippus 89 (A-B) and "smart capital" for the thalassocrats / Paul McKechnie -- ; 9. Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas / Olga Palagia -- ; 10. Ptolemies and piracy / Lucia Criscuolo -- ; 11. The Nile police in the Ptolemaic period / Thomas Kruse -- ; 12. Hellenistic royal barges / Dorothy J. Thompson -- ; 13. Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India / Christian Habicht -- ; 14. Timosthenes and Eratosthenes : sea routes and Hellenistic geography / Francesco Prontera -- ; 15. Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa / Klaus Geus. |
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With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that of its admirals. Egypt's close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the transport of goods on the Nile and by sea. Along with the trade in grain came the exchange of other products. Ptolemaic kings used their wealth for luxury ships and the dissemination of royal portraiture was accompanied by royal cult. Alexandria, the new capital of Egypt, attracted poets, scholars and even philosophers; geographical exploration by sea was a feature of the period and observations of the time enjoyed a long afterlife. |
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UNINA9910779540803321 |
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Autore |
DeHaven-Smith Lance |
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Conspiracy theory in America [[electronic resource] /] / Lance deHaven-Smith |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Conspiracies - United States - History |
Conspiracy theories - United States - History |
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Political culture - United States - History - 21st century |
United States Politics and government 1945-1989 |
United States Politics and government 1989- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""List of Illustrations and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: High-Crime Blind""; ""1. The Conspiracy-Theory Label""; ""2. The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief""; ""3. Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences""; ""4. The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy""; ""5. State Crimes against Democracy""; ""6. Restoring American Democracy""; ""Appendix: CIA Dispatch #1035-960""; ""Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly even senior government officials—were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking akin to superstition? Conspiracy Theory in America investigates how the Founders’ hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today’s blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as |
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ludicrous by definition. Lance deHaven-Smith reveals that the term “conspiracy theory” entered the American lexicon of political speech to deflect criticism of the Warren Commission and traces it back to a CIA propaganda campaign to discredit doubters of the commission’s report. He asks tough questions and connects the dots among five decades’ worth of suspicious events, including the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the crimes of Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax letter attacks. Sure to spark intense debate about the truthfulness and trustworthiness of our government, Conspiracy Theory in America offers a powerful reminder that a suspicious, even radically suspicious, attitude toward government is crucial to maintaining our democracy. |
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