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It must never for one moment be imagined that the Hansa was a democratic body, far fro it: the heads of the organization were the aristocracy of trade, they were all rich burghers, often merchant princes, who had traveled widely, and who, in addition to being astute business men, were men of brain and intelligence...

Hansa - Hanseatic Town - Hansa Cog- are terms which are familiar to anyone interested in northern European History. The Hanseatic period has left behind many traces: -the towns with their churches, town halls and patrician houses, a unique architectural flavor, and the ruins of mighty defences, -the town seals, public documents and chronicles, -the cogs, those one-masted sailing ships with their typical profile, and all the sagas and songs about the trade they plied and the escapades of their pirates, -the paintings and sculptures scattered along the coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas. Hanseatic history is a chapter, not only in the history of northern and central Germany, but in that of other countries in the regions around those tow seas; the records of a Hanseatic past which still inspire the admirations of today's observers testify to the outstanding cultural accomplishment of Hanseatic burghers. What kind of people built those impressive towns five and six centuries ago? What kind of life did they lead? How did they work and where did they live? Did they have access to education? How did trade and seafaring influence their occupations and their character? What role did church and religion play in their society? How was their mentality expresses in their literature, music and visual arts? And were they conscious of their own history? This book seeks to answer those questions in words and in pictures. It sketches in outline the emergence and evolution of this extraordinary historical phenomenon, its heyday and its demise, demonstrating the international operation and influence of the Hansa which, first as a company of merchants and then as a League of towns, encouraged the economic unity of the lands around the North Sea and the Baltic.

Hansa - Hanseatic Town - Hansa Cog- are terms which are familiar to anyone interested in northern European History. The Hanseatic period has left behind many traces: -the towns with their churches, town halls and patrician houses, a unique architectural flavor, and the ruins of mighty defences, -the town seals, public documents and chronicles, -the cogs, those one-masted sailing ships with their typical profile, and all the sagas and songs about the trade they plied and the escapades of their pirates, -the paintings and sculptures scattered along the coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas. Hanseatic history is a chapter, not only in the history of northern and central Germany, but in that of other countries in the regions around those tow seas; the records of a Hanseatic past which still inspire the admirations of today's observers testify to the outstanding cultural accomplishment of Hanseatic burghers. What kind of people built those impressive towns five and six centuries ago? What kind of life did they lead? How did they work and where did they live? Did they have access to education? How did trade and seafaring influence their occupations and their character? What role did church and religion play in their society? How was their mentality expresses in their literature, music and visual arts? And were they conscious of their own history? This book seeks to answer those questions in words and in pictures. It sketches in outline the emergence and evolution of this extraordinary historical phenomenon, its heyday and its demise, demonstrating the international operation and influence of the Hansa which, first as a company of merchants and then as a League of towns, encouraged the economic unity of the lands around the North Sea and the Baltic.

This set explores such issues as the development of credit and banking, the impetus to world trade given by colonial expansion and the role of the great trading companies, including the East India Company.

This set explores such issues as the development of credit and banking, the impetus to world trade given by colonial expansion and the role of the great trading companies, including the East India Company.

EU-only five CD box containing a quintet of original albums from the Europop duo housed in miniature LP sleeves. Features the albums The First Album, Let's Talk About Love, Ready For Romance, In The Middle Of Nowhere and In The Garden Of Venus. Hansa.

One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles. The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies―and a language different from any Sophie has heard. Sophie doesn't know it yet, but she has just stepped into the middle of a political firestorm, and a conspiracy that could destroy a world she has just discovered...her world, where everyone seems to know who she is, and where she is forbidden to stay. But Sophie is stubborn, and smart, and refuses to be cast adrift by people who don't know her and yet wish her gone. With the help of a sister she has never known, and a ship captain who would rather she had never arrived, she must navigate the shoals of the highly charged politics of Stormwrack, and win the right to decide for herself whether she stays in this wondrous world...or is doomed to exile, in Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica.

By deploying the Klikiss Torch to ignite a gas giant, the humans of the Hansa earned the enmity of the alien hydrogues. Taking swift revenge, the hydrogues attacked not only the Hansa, but the other humans, the independent Roamers and Therons, as well. Even the Ildirans, mankind's alien allies, were helpless to resist. Then another alien race appeared: the star-dwelling faeros who ferociously fought the hydrogues. Now caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between the two alien superpowers, the three factions of humanity and the Ildirans are desperate to survive. Can they band together to fight a common threat? Or will their differences lead to civil wars?For Cesca Peroni, leader of the Roamers, survival means extending a helping hand to others, beginning with the Therons, whose planet of telepathic worldtrees is a smoldering ruin. For Basil Wenceslas, ruthless chairman of the Hansa, survival means using technology supplied by the mysterious Klikiss robots to subject the Roamers and Therons to Hansa authority - whether they like it or not. For Jora'h, the new Ildiran Mage-Imperator, survival means throwing off the traditions that have crippled the Empire. And for Jora'h's mad brother, it means restoring those traditions - even at the cost of a deadly internecine war.As long-hidden intrigues and dark secrets come to light, a man who is believed to be long dead returns. Transformed beyond imagining, he introduces an ally who may save humanity: the wentals, ancient enemies of the hydrogues. But this new fragile hope will be threatened by a fresh betrayal - the most bitter and brutal of them all.

Hansa Wadkar (born Ratan Bhalchandra) was one of Maharashtra's best known stage and screen personalities. Married at the young age of 15, Wadkar lived a life of considerable hardship. She trained rigorously to be an actor, struggling for a sense of self-identity and fulfillment. Her autobiography, published in 1970, created a sensation for its frankness and directness. It was later made into a film, Bhumika, by the well-known director Shyam Benegal and starred Smita Patil. The autobiography is here supplemented with the screenplay of the film.

This is the fascinating story of two German surface raiders and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the 8-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper, fast, powerful and Navy-manned: the other a converted merchant man, Hansa Line's Kandelfels armed with a few old 5.9s manned largely by reservists, and sailing under the nom de guerre of Pinguin. Contrary to all expectations, the amateur man-of-war reaped a rich harvest and went out in a blaze of glory. Her purpose-built sister, on the other hand, was hard-pressed even to make her mark on the war and ended her days in ignominy.The author emphasizes the striking contrast between the conduct of Ernst Kruder, captain of the Pinguin, whose concern it was to cause as little loss of life as possible, and the callous Captain Meisel of the Admiral Hipper, who has scant regard for the lives of the men whose ships he had sunk.Captain Edwards describes in detail Kruder's most audacious coup, the capture, rather than the sinking, of the entire Norwegian Antarctic whaling fleet, which he calls '"a disaster of major proportions". Equally disastrous was the havoc wreaked upon convoys HG53 and SLS 64 by the Admiral Hipper in the North Atlantic in February 1941.

In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships.Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence.And meanwhile, the original, voracious Klikiss race, long thought to be extinct, has returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone in the way.Praise for the Saga of Seven Suns?"A soaring epic?a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen."--- Science Fiction Chronicle"Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert's classic Dune series."?Scifi.com

The Nature of a Pirate is the third book in acclaimed author, A.M. Dellmonica’s high seas, Stormwrack series. The Lambda Award nominated series begins with Child of a Hidden Sea. Marine videographer and biologist Sophie Hansa has spent the past few months putting her knowledge of science to use on the strange world of Stormwrack, solving seemingly impossible cases where no solution had been found before. When a series of ships within the Fleet of Nations, the main governing body that rules a loose alliance of island nation states, are sunk by magical sabotage, Sophie is called on to find out why. While surveying the damage of the most recent wreck, she discovers a strange-looking creature―a fright, a wooden oddity born from a banished spell―causing chaos within the ship. The question is who would put this creature aboard and why?The quest for answers finds Sophie magically bound to an abolitionist from Sylvanner, her father’s homeland. Now Sophie and the crew of the Nightjar must discover what makes this man so unique while outrunning magical assassins and villainous pirates, and stopping the people responsible for the attacks on the Fleet before they strike again.

"The story ofthe sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"-Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory." from Google books