Additional documentation, by Olivier Pironet (Le Monde diplomatique, August 2021)

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Based on an important cartographic device, this work examines the cogs of the power of the great thalassocracies which have succeeded each other over the centuries since Antiquity.

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The history of the world and of civilizations revisited through the prism of the sea. The author notably highlights the link between economic growth and maritime expansion.

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This sum, which brings together the contributions of some fifty specialists, analyzes the problems relating to the oceans in the scientific, economic, political, strategic fields, etc.

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How, in the 16th-18th centuries, a «  Atlantic proletariat  » and «  transnational (Sailors, buccaneers, slaves, etc.) opposed the emerging capitalism.

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A reflection on the place and vision of the maritime space, at the crossroads of history, geography and sociology, through the case of the Red Sea under the Ottoman Empire.

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A collective of medievalist researchers retraces the major stages of maritime history in the Middle Ages and explores the relationships between the societies of the time and the marine world.

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The odyssey of the metallic parallelepiped, put into service in the mid-1950s on the coasts (…)