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Between crown and commerce : Marseille and the early modern Mediterranean
Between Crown and Commerce examines the relationship between French royal statecraft, mercantilism, and civic republicanism in the context of the globalizing economy of the early modern Mediterranean world. This is the story of how the French Crown and local institutions accommodated one another as they sought to forge acceptable political and commercial relationships with one another for the common goal of economic prosperity. Junko Thérèse Takeda tells this tale through the particular experience of Marseille, a port the monarchy saw as key to commercial expansion in the Mediterranean.At first, Marseille’s commercial and political elites were strongly opposed to the Crown’s encroaching influence. Rather than dismiss their concerns, the monarchy cleverly co-opted their civic traditions, practices, and institutions to convince the city’s elite of their important role in Levantine commerce. Chief among such traditions were local ideas of citizenship and civic virtue. As the city’s stature throughout the Mediterranean grew, however, so too did the dangers of commercial expansion as exemplified by the arrival of the bubonic plague. Marseille’s citizens reevaluated citizenship and merchant virtue during the epidemic, while the French monarchy's use of the crisis as an opportunity to further extend its power reanimated republican vocabulary.Between Crown and Commerce deftly combines a political and intellectual history of state-building, mercantilism, and republicanism with a cultural history of medical crisis. In doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change.
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Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945
In Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 Simon Kitson challenges assumptions about the attitude and behaviour of the French Police and its role with regard to Resistance, Collaboration, the Holocaust and the forced labour draft during the Second World War.
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World film locations. Marseilles
Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as 'the French Los Angeles'. This volume features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by international film scholars and critics.
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Native to the Republic
InNative to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards and decent housing came to be understood as social rights in late twentieth-century France. These ideas evolved through everyday negotiations between ordinary people, municipal authorities, central state bureaucrats, elected officials, and social scientists in postwar Marseille. Nasiali shows how these local-level interactions fundamentally informed evolving ideas about French citizenship and the built environment, namely that the institutionalization of social citizenship also created new spaces for exclusion. Although everyone deserved social rights, some were supposedly more deserving than others.
From the 1940s through the early 1990s, metropolitan discussions about the potential for town planning to transform everyday life were shaped by colonial and, later, postcolonial migration within the changing empire. As a port and the historical gateway to and from the colonies, Marseille's interrelated projects to develop welfare institutions and manage urban space make it a particularly significant site for exploring this uneven process. Neighborhood debates about the meaning and goals of modernization contributed to normative understandings about which residents deserved access to expanding social rights. Nasiali argues that assumptions about racial, social, and spatial differences profoundly structured a differential system of housing in postwar France.Native to the Republichighlights the value of new approaches to studying empire, membership in the nation, and the welfare state by showing how social citizenship was not simply constituted within \"imagined communities\" but also through practices involving the contestation of spaces and the enjoyment of rights.
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The Marseille caper
Sam's last adventure sent him to France in search of a missing wine collection, but he thought it'd be a while before he was back, especially with the charms of the fiery Elena Morales to keep him settled in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul, the recent victim of Sam's own counter-heist, asks him to take a job in Marseille, it's impossible for Sam and Elena to resist. The lure of further excitement and the pleasures of the region beckon them back to France. Quelle joie! Yet as competition over Marseille's valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed, Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself right in the middle, with intrigue and danger following closely behind.
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Observational uncertainties on past and future sea level rise for Marseille and Brest tide gauges
Brest and Marseille tide gauges time series between 1885 and 2022 data gaps are filled with data from neighboring tide gauges thanks to a combination model that does not alter original trends. Continuous relative sea level time series obtained from this step are then corrected from the inverse barometer effect and/or periodic components. Time series are systematically explored to form all possible sub-time series, from 20 years length to the full time span, and adjusted with linear and quadratic fits. It is shown that corrections have various effect on parameters best estimates, depending on the chosen period, and that they reduce uncertainties on estimated parameters; corrections schemes comparison and correlation with climate indices suggest the influence of the Northern Atlantic Oscillation on sea level trends and accelerations in both locations. It is shown that linear fit model have less capabilities to represent sea level variability than quadratic fit model. Quadratic fit model shows that Marseille sea level strongly dropped after WWII, with trend of almost 4 mm/yr before this large sea level decrease event, –2 mm/yr during the event, then 3 mm/yr during the recovery following this one, and than Brest sea level did not see such variability. It is shown that sea level extrapolation is consistent with IPCC projections only for interpolation period lengths around 60 years. On this basis, 20 cm additional sea level rise is expected until 2050, and level 50 cm will be reached before the end of 21st century in both Brest and Marseille.
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The diamond caper
\"Expert sleuth Sam Levitt and his partner in love an d intrigue, Elena Morales, return in the latest installment of the ... Caper series. When a Riviera socialite's diamonds are stolen, the latest in a string of seemingly unconnected but ever-more-audacious jewelry heists across France, Elena flies in to investigate the insurance claim. It s a trip she's more than happy to make, as it gives her a chance to meet up with old friends in Marseille and, particularly, with Sam. Once reunited, Sam isn't entirely distracted by domestic matters. In the pattern of these perfect crimes he's beginning to see a master at work, and he's quickly determined to connect and solve the cases. But as he and Elena dig deeper, they begin to realize just how much is connected and how dangerous it may be to pursue the whole truth\"--Provided by Publisher.
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Large-Scale Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection, Marseille, France, 2023–2024
We report a large-scale outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections encompassing 218 cases (0.8% of 26,449 patients tested) during 2023-2024 in Marseille, France. The bacterium is currently circulating and primarily affects children <15 years of age. High prevalence of co-infections warrants the use of a syndromic diagnostic strategy.
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