Despite its small size, its population of one million, Djibouti has managed in a few years to acquire an international reputation. Djibouti's visibility can be surprising. The country benefits from a key strategic positioning in the Horn of Africa.

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Introducing the reader to the latest research into subjects until now studied in other Mediterranean historiographical traditions so as to reassess some aspects of the socio-economic and cultural history of the early modern Mediterranean with reference to Fernand Braudel's legacy.

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This book proposes a new approach to the history of ports, from the 16th century to the present day, by applying for the first time the concept of "resilience".

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The first comprehensive work on the cultural role of Boulogne-sur-Mer from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, on the networks that its leading figures forged with each other, and on the town's links with Paris and major foreign cities.

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