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Buccaneers and privateers : the story of the English sea rover, 1675-1725 /Richard Frohock. Frohock, Richard, 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 821.11"16/17":341.362.1

Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires, 1730-1850 / edited by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.8909033

Panorama of the Thames : a riverside view of Georgian London /John R. Inglis & Jill Sanders. "This historical gift book is a reincarnation of a guide to the river Thames first published 1829 by Samuel Leigh. The original was a concertina of 45 printed and hand-coloured sheets, glued together to form a magnificent 60ft depiction of the river's north and south banks or Middlesex and Surrey banks, as they were then from Westminster Bridge to Petersham Meadows in Richmond. Among the buildings that stood along this 30-mile stretch of river in those days were many that no longer exist including the Houses of Parliament before they burned down in 1834, or the factory owned by the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel but others still stand today. A great deal of the original panorama shows just trees and foliage, so for this book it has been edited down to feature the most interesting sections. These are grouped into 19 villages, each with a short 200-word introduction. The buildings are captioned (in the present tense, for vivid appeal), and there is an AZ detailing landmarks and key buildings in each section. Written in collaboration with local experts and various local history societies, these descriptions are richly informative and include information on the waterway, the landscape, and the people who lived and worked on the banks of the river at the end of the Georgian era."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. (411)7.047 ING

Atlas francois Jaillot, Alexis Hubert 1700 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(4)"17"

John Evelyn : living for ingenuity /Gillian Darley. "This new biography ... is the first to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life and his friendships, than permitted by his own celebrated diaries."--Dust jacket. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Evelyn, John

The culture of piracy, 1580-1630 : English literature and seaborne crime /by Claire Jowitt. Jowitt, Claire. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 821.11"15/16":341.362.1

The art of a nation : three centuries of Irish painting /Jonathan Benington [and others] ; edited by William Laffan. An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries held at Pyms Gallery in London. The catalogue comprises 30 artists: Charles Collins (c. 1700-1744); Judith Lewis (1711-1781); Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784); Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1806); George Mullins (active 1756-1775/6); Matthew William Peters (1741-1814); Joseph Wilson (active 1756-d. 1793); John Boyne (c. 1750-1810); George Chinnery (1774-1852); James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841); William Henry Maguire (1806-1853), Irish School (1837); Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917); John Butler Yeats (1839-1922); Howard Helmick (1845-1907); Sarah Purser (1848-1943); Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1914); William Henry Bartlett (1858-1914); Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903); Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940); Grace Henry (1868-1953); Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); Paul Henry (1876-1958); Sir William Orpen (1878-1931); William John Leech (1881-1968); Mary Swanzy (1882-1978); Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992); Colin Middleton (1910-1983); and William Scott (1913-1989). 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(415)

Telling time : clocks, diaries and English diurnal form 1660-1785 Sherman, Stuart 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 529.7

Three strands of an unravelling rope / Wayne Greig. Greig, Wayne, 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"

Pepys's diary / selected and edited by Robert Latham from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Pepys, Samuel, 1996. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Pepys(093.32)

Samuel Pepys : the unequalled self /Claire Tomalin. "A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It moves through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. While using the diary as a source, the author goes beyond its narrative to the inner man, at the same time revealing life as a young man in Restoration London. Explored within are Pepys' relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts and his agonies and delights." 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS, Samuel

Writing North America in the seventeenth century : English representations in print and manuscript /Catherine Armstrong. Armstrong, Catherine. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.02

Commercial agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa / edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz and Silke Strickrodt. "Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 338.43:326.1(66)

Anne Bonny : the infamous female pirate /Phillip Thomas Tucker. "The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny's life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity. Born in scandal in Ireland then emigrating to the American Colonies, she turned her back on the rigid South Carolina plantation lifestyle to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean's pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived. So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopath, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. Anne Bonny: The Infamous Female Pirate takes a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women's history."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BONNY

The Northern Wars 1558-1721 Frost, Robert 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1558/1721"(4-18)

Iberian world empires and the globalization of Europe 1415-1668 / Bartolomâe Yun-Casalilla. This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe's economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization's minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period's economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations. [2019?]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 946.000903

Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan. "Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Alterations adopted in the London Pharmacopoeia of 1824 ... Stocker, Richard 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616

Embroidered Georgian pictures / Margaret Swain. "Meticulously embroidered pictures that could be framed and displayed formed a part of a girl's education through the Goergian period in Britain (1714-1830). This book shows the variety of subjects and techniques and also glances at the work produced in American schools. As well as schoolgirls, outstanding women like Miss Morritt, Mrs Knowles and Miss Linwood produced large embroidered pictures to simulate paintings, greatly admired at the time, but now totally neglected. Pictorial needlework also adored upholstery, chair seats, screens and wallhangings. This book will be a useful handbook for collectors, museum curators and antique dealers, and an inspiration to the modern needlewoman."--Provided by the publisher. 1994. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 746.3"1714/1830"

Fictions of consent : slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England /Urvashi Chakravarty. Chakravarty, Urvashi, 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820.9/352625

La nueva y grande relumbrante antorcha de la mar Keulen, Johannes van 1698-1700 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26)"16"

Women and culture at the courts of the Stuart Queens / edited by Clare McManus. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(410)-055.2"15/16"

18th century royal navy : medical terms, expressions, and trivia /Rex Hickox. This book is a compendium of information about the Royal Navy in the 18th century. It looks at the history, conditions and beliefs of the period, as well as detailing rank and duties of the officers and men. It has sections on 18th-century medicine and medical terms, burial at sea, nautical expressions and maritime superstitions. Also included is a flag glossary and list of important dates. 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)

First across the continent : Alexander Mackenzie's trek to the Pacific, Part I & II /by Barry Gough. Gough, Barry M. 1997 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER

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