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Glass exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 : diplomatic, mercantile and technological interactions /Emily Byrne Curtis. "In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China." "Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains."--Jacket. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 748(4:5)"1550/1800"

Migration records : a guide for family historians /Roger Kershaw. "Fully revised and up to the minute guide to four centuries of movement to, from and within Britain's shores. This practical and accessible book shows how to explore migration records - and ancestors featured in them - through the wealth of material at The National Archives and elsewhere. Migration Records charts new online releases, including a major immigration package of passenger lists, certificates of arrival and naturalization applications, and discusses how improved catalogue information has opened up passport applications for research. From refugees fleeing persecution to child migrants, naturalization and citizenship papers to transportation records, it is an invaluable guide to the story of migration that changed so many lives." -- Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.5:325(42)

Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail /Matthew R. Bahar. Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came together to command fleets of sailing ships and engage in strategic diplomacy, thwarting English and French imperialism. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries--Provided by publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.004/9734

A cultural history of slavery and human trafficking / general editor Benjamin N. Lawrence. "With coverage extending from prehistory to the modern day these six highly illustrated, interdisciplinary volumes are the first definitive reference work covering the cultural history of slavery and human trafficking. Volumes cover: 1. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World (10,000 BCE - 500 CE), 2. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Pre-Modern Era (500 - 1450), 3. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Encounters (1450 - 1700), 4. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire (1700 - 1900), 5. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Global Conflict (1900 - 1945), 6. A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Globalization (1945 - present). Bringing together an international cast of over 60 contributors, each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: definitions and ideologies of slavery and trafficking; slavery, trafficking, and the law; political cultures; coercive laboring economies; social organization, culture, and ritual; gender, enslavement, and trafficking; age, enslavement, and trafficking; and anti-slavery, anti-trafficking, and abolition outcomes. This model supports readers in tracing one theme throughout history, as well as providing them with a thorough overview of each individual period." 2025. • BOOK • 6 copies available. txt

A cultural history of the Atlantic world, 1250-1820 / John K. Thornton. "A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.85(261)"12/18"

The mindful hand : inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation /edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 001.894(4)"13/18"

Sailing-ship models : a selection from European and American collections Nance, R Morton 1924 • FOLIO • 5 copies available. 629.123.1:086.5

My ancestor was in the Royal Navy / by Ian H Waller. "This long awaited addition to the series will become the bible for tracing Royal Naval ancestors. A comprehensive guide to Navy records dating back to before 1700, the book also contains a brief history of the service, guides to uniforms and insignia, divisions and branches of the Navy, pensions, dockyards, casualties, courts martial and tribunals and much, much more. Illustrated in full colour throughout." • BOOK • 2 copies available. 929.3

Governing the sea in the early modern era : essays in honor of Robert C. Ritchie /edited by Peter C. Mancall and Carole Shammas. "Early modern European governments and their subjects had difficulty agreeing to laws governing behavior on the seaan environment that featured watery borders, rampant piracy, the threat of free trade, and the large-scale transportation of human cargo. The essays in this volume explore how the exploitation of the oceans changed the institution of slavery, long-distance trade, property crime, the environment, literature, and memory from medieval times to the nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.225"15/18"

Colonization, piracy, and trade in early modern Europe : the roles of powerful women and queens /Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt, editors. "This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of important women-such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria-exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they navigated these activities, and how they are represented in literature. By highlighting the links between female power and foreign affairs, 'Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe' contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern queenship."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382-055.2

The boats of men of war / Commander W E May, with additions from Simon Stephens "In the age of sail, the boats carried by the men-of-war were an essential part of the ship's outfitting. They were necessary to move stores, act as the "engine" in confined waters, serve as amphibious raiders, and even to cruise independently as tenders to the mother ship. Over the centuries there have been many sizes, hull forms, and rigs employed, so the exact details proved a problem for model makers, marine artists, and builders of replicas. This new book, based on a work originally published in 1974, is still the only study of the whole history of this neglected topic. Now revised, expanded and much more thoroughly illustrated, it covers the boat 'establishments' (the sizes and types of boat formally allocated), the methods of hoisting and stowing them aboard ship, the design and construction of the boats themselves, their fittings, rigs and armament - guns, howitzers, and even Congreve rockets. With the largest collection of original naval boat draughts ever published, this new edition will be warmly welcomed by ship modellers and historians of the world's navies, as well as all small-craft enthusiasts."--Provided by the publisher. 1999 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 629.125.1/.3

John Herschel's Cape voyage : private science, public imagination, and the ambitions of empire /Steven Ruskin. Ruskin, Steven, c2004. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 910.4(68)

Sugar, spices and human cargo : an early Black history of Greenwich /by Joan Anim-Addo. "Sugar, spices and human cargo traces the lives of black settlers in early Greenwich of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. From Cornelius the blackamore of Lee in 1593 to dying lascars in the summer of 1796, the book pieces together shards of a multicultural, multiracial history that can no longer be denied. Why was Olaudah Equiano keen to return to Maze Hill after his second spell of West Indian slavery? Who were some of the eighteenth century black pensioners of Greenwich and what connection is there between Charlton and the East Indies? These are only a few of the questions addressed in this new work which uncovers and reinterprets an important dimension of Greenwich's local history."--Provided by the publisher. 1996. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 914.216

Russian warships in the age of sail, 1696-1860 : design, construction, careers and fates /John Tredrea and Eduard Sozaev. "Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful, and at times in the eighteenth century was the third largest navy in the world - yet its history, and especially its ships, are virtually unrecorded in the West. This major new reference work handsomely fills this gap, with a complete and comprehensive list of the fleet, with technical detail and career highlights for every ship, down to small craft. However, because the subject is so little recorded in English, the book also provides substantial background material on the organisation and administration of the navy, its weapons, personnel and shipbuilding facilities, as well as an outline of Russia?s naval campaigns down to the clash with Britain and France known as the Crimean War. Illustrated with plans, paintings and prints rarely seen outside Russia, it is authoritative, reliable and comprehensive, the culmination of a long collaboration between a Russian naval historian and an American ship enthusiast."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(47)"1696/1860"

Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 / edited by J.D. Davies, Alan James and Gijs Rommelse. "This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine a wide range of themes over a wide time period and broad geographical range, embracing Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Venice and the United States, along with the "extra-national" polities of piracy, neutrality, and international Calvinism. This volume provides important and often provocative new insights into both the growth of western naval power and important elements of political, cultural and religious history."-- 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359/.030940903

Ships & guns : the sea ordnance in Venice and Europe between the 15th and the 17th centuries /edited by Carlo Beltrame and Renato Gianni Ridella. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.42(450.341)"14/16"

Law, labour, and empire : comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500-1800 /Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Richard J. Blakemore, Tijl Vanneste. "Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives"-- 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 331.7/6313870903

The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean /David Abulafia. "Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters--sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims--who have crossed and recrossed it."--Publisher's description. 2011. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 94(262)

Hooking, drifting and trawling : 500 years of British deep sea fishing Merwe, Pieter van der 1986 • PAMPHLET • 9 copies available. 639.22

The East India Company at home, 1757-1857 / edited by Margot Finn and Kate Smith. "The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 747.0941

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