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Historic ship models : of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries /Arnold and Henry Kriegstein. "In terms of quality, historical significance and sheer numbers, the Kriegstein family's ship model collection in the United States is the finest in private hands anywhere in the world. Principally made up of official seventeenth- and eighteenth-century models in the Admiralty or Navy Board style, the collection would be the envy of any maritime museum. As the models are not on public display, this book fills the need for a detailed catalogue and visual reference with superb colour photos of all the models, both overall portraits and multiple close-ups. Apart from lengthy descriptions of these magnificent artefacts, space is devoted to how they were identified, and the valuable research done by Arnold and Henry Kriegstein, the identical twins whose shared passion brought this all together. Beyond the technicalities of the ships, the story has a human dimension in the brothers' adventures in pursuit of every model and their dogged determination to secure them against official obstruction and dubious antiques-trade practices. This is an entirely new and revised edition of 17th and 18th Century Ship Models first published in 2007, now expanded to include the additions to the collection since that date."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82010973

British warships in the age of sail 1817-1863 : design, construction, careers and fates /Rif Winfield. Winfield, Rif, 2014. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82-85(42)

Pirate queens : the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read /Rebecca Alexandra Simon. Simon, Rebecca-(College teacher), 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Unsettled : the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England /Patricia Fumerton. This book attempts to elucidate the everyday lives of the working poor in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on seamen. Much of the book is built around a case study of Edward Barlow, whose extensively illustrated journal recounts his experiences as a merchant sailor in the late 17th century. Includes black and white illustrations. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BARLOW, EDWARD

The age of projects / edited by Maximillian E. Novak. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(42)"1660/1789"

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 / John McAleer, Christer Petley, editors. "This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities - crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the British-Atlantic empire in the era of war, revolution, counter-revolution, and upheaval between the beginning of the Seven Years War and the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. Contributions question the limits - conceptually and geographically - of that Atlantic world, suggesting that, by considering the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic together, we can gain greater insights into Britain's maritime history."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42:73)"1750/1820"

Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature /edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill. 1996. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)"17":58

Mr. Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire /Jessica Hanser. "This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders - George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras - and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382/.0941/051

British art and the East India Company / Geoff Quilley. "This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new 'school' of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the 'scandal of empire' for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 709.4109033

Looking for longitude : a cultural history /Katy Barrett. "Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth's London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth's prints - a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake's Progress in 1735 - to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body - the Board of Longitude - established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude's most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison"--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526/.62021

The untold war at sea : America's revolutionary privateers /Kylie A. Hulbert. "Sailing in the waters of the Atlantic and the Caribbean throughout the eighteenth-century, privateers played a vital role in numerous European and Anglo-American conflicts. This book extends that story to the role of privateers in the American Revolution. Privateer operations provide a fresh perspective on the impact and influence of the Revolution as a global conflict. Revolution-era engagements are not only between British Regulars, German mercenaries, and colonial patriots, but also privateers, include international crews operating in international waters on an international stage. These merchant marines understood that the war not only consisted of battlefields on American soil but required foreign support and aid. International recognition was imperative. The process of revolution and winning independence was global in nature and privateers operated at its core. Their experiences, rather than being unfamiliar and unknown, are an integral part of the story which this book highlights, reintegrating their story into the popular, patriotic narrative"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.3/5

Tempest : the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolution /James Davey. "The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain's Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical - and sometimes brutal - responses from the government and naval command."--Provided by the publisher. 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0094109033

Art and war in the Pacific world : making, breaking, and taking from Anson's voyage to the Philippine-American War /J.M. Mancini. "The Pacific world has long been recognized as a hub for the global trade in art objects, but the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict during the British and US imperial incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world and of global artistic interaction by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force. Focusing on the period from Commodore George Anson's voyage to the Philippine-American War, J. M. Mancini's exceptional study deftly weaves together disparate strands of history to create a novel paradigm for cultural analysis."--Provided by publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044

Aquatint worlds : travel, print, and empire, 1770-1820 /Douglas Fordham. "In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At the same time, the expanding purview of the British empire created a market for images of far-away places. Book publishers quickly seized on these two trends and began producing travel books illustrated with aquatint prints of Indian cave temples, Chinese waterways, African villages, and more. Offering a close analysis of three exceptional publications--Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery (1795-1808), William Alexander's Costume of China (1797-1805), and Samuel Daniell's African Scenery and Animals (1804-5)--this volume examines how aquatint became a preferred medium for the visual representation of cultural difference, and how it subtly shaped the direction of Western modernism."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 769.922

Slave empire : how slavery made modern Britain /Padraic X. Scanlan. "The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362094109033

British warships in the age of sail, 1793-1817 : design, construction, careers and fates /Rif Winfield. Winfield, Rif. 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1793/1817"

Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia / David Graeber. "The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later. Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4/5

Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /by Siegfried Huigen. Huigen, Siegfried 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(83)"17"

Pirates : terror on the high seas /Angus Konstam ; illustrated by Angus McBride. Konstam, Angus. c2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1

A dark inheritance : blood, race, and sex in colonial Jamaica /Brooke N. Newman. "Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the centrality of notions of blood and blood mixture to evolving racial definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica and to legal and political debates over slavery and the rights of imperial subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that challenges to an Atlantic slave system underpinned by distinctions of blood had far-reaching consequences for British understandings of race, gender, and national belonging."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.46

Blood waters : war, disease and race in the eighteenth-century British Caribbean /Nicholas Rogers. "This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and the Black Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out some autonomy from the British and Bourbon powers. It also explores the mutiny of a slave-ship and its unsuccessful raiding ventures in order to show how the dominant European powers sought to contain piracy in an expanding plantation complex. The book emphasizes the contrarieties of struggle, the difficulties preventing subaltern groups, whether slaves, free blacks, indigenous peoples or soldiers and sailors, from forging broader alliances, and the importance of tropical disease in shaping military outcomes. It warns against romanticizing resistance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, showing that it was instead a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.9/03

The bloody flag : mutiny in the age of Atlantic revolution /Niklas Frykman. "Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility, and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of north Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era's constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day"-- [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"17/18"

Cook and the Pacific : with essays /by John Maynard, Susannah Helman and Martin Woods. Maynard, John, 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 306.09

Admirals in court : discipline, honour and naval justice, 1778-1814 /John Morrow. "This book explores the role that courts martial played in the professional lives of late Georgian flag officers. It examines the genesis, proceedings and outcomes of nine trials faced by British admirals in the American and French wars. In some cases, the British Admiralty Board instigated courts martial in response to allegations of cowardice, corruption or disobedience; in others, flag officers requested to be tried in the face of percieved mistreatment or criticism. Decisions to charge were invariably affected by the political context in which the Board operated as well as disciplinary considerations. For the admirals concerned, courts martial had significant implications foir their honour, professional reputations and subsequent careers. Their experiences are set in the context of the naval courts martial system and the charging and conviction rates of other naval personnel in the period. Drawing on a range of sources, from Admiralty records in the National Archives to official and personal papers and the press, this study sheds new light on prominent individuals' careers and on attitudes towards naval leadership at key moments in 18th and early 19th century history."-- 2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 343.41014309033

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