Word: transatlanticism
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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But by the time the deal was in motion, discord and age had sent several top members of Chrysler's dream team--vice chairman Bob Lutz, chief engineer Francois Castaing and manufacturing whiz Dennis Pawley--into the Detroit sunset. The demands of the merger made things worse. Meetings, transatlantic travel...
ELTIS: Early modern Europeans were, obviously, first of all French or Dutch or English or Spanish, but in addition had some concept of "Europeanness." Africans identified with some much smaller political/cultural/religious entity. The trauma of the slave trade and slavery meant that in the New World Europeans added "whiteness" to...
ELTIS: Until late in the nineteenth century Africans, aided by epidemiology, had the power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in...
Has the Concorde hit old age ahead of schedule? Only 20 of the supersonic passenger jets were ever built, of which 13 are still in service, operated by British Airways and Air France. They were all built between 1975 and 1980. Both companies hope to keep the planes flying for...
What has given an old technology a new boost is lightweight materials like foamed carbon fibers, similar to those used in the Brietling Orbiter 3, the balloon that Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones used in last year's record-setting flight around the world. Piccard is the grandson of Auguste...